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Shock waves from heavy-quark mesons in AdS/CFT
Steven S. Gubser, Silviu S. Pufu, Amos Yarom
We calculate the far-field stress-energy tensor of a quark gluon plasma due to a heavy-quark meson moving through it, using a semi-classical description in string theory of the mes…
Universality of the diffusion wake in the gauge-string duality
Steven S. Gubser, Amos Yarom
As a particle moves through a fluid, it may generate a laminar wake behind it. In the gauge-string duality, we show that such a diffusion wake is created by a heavy quark moving th…
Sonic booms and diffusion wakes generated by a heavy quark in thermal AdS/CFT
Steven S. Gubser, Silviu S. Pufu, Amos Yarom
We evaluate the Poynting vector generated by a heavy quark moving through a thermal state of N=4 gauge theory using AdS/CFT. A significant diffusion wake is observed as well as a M…
Energy disturbances due to a moving quark from gauge-string duality
Steven S. Gubser, Silviu S. Pufu, Amos Yarom
Using AdS/CFT, we calculate the energy density of a quark moving through a thermal state of N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory. Relying on previous work for momentum-space representations…
Master field treatment of metric perturbations sourced by the trailing string
Steven S. Gubser, Silviu S. Pufu
We present decoupled, separable forms of the linearized Einstein equations sourced by a string trailing behind an external quark moving through a thermal state of N=4 super-Yang-Mi…
Momentum fluctuations of heavy quarks in the gauge-string duality
Steven S. Gubser
Using the gauge-string duality, I compute two-point functions of the force acting on an external quark moving through a finite temperature bath of N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory. I co…