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Time warps
Steven S. Gubser
I reconsider asymmetrically warped compactifications, in which time and space have different warp factors. I call such compactifications time warps if the bulk geometry has neither…
Low-temperature behavior of the Abelian Higgs model in anti-de Sitter space
Steven S. Gubser, Abhinav Nellore
We explore the low-temperature behavior of the Abelian Higgs model in AdS_4, away from the probe limit in which back-reaction of matter fields on the metric can be neglected. Over…
The gravity dual to a quantum critical point with spontaneous symmetry breaking
Steven S. Gubser, Fabio D. Rocha
We consider zero temperature solutions to the Abelian Higgs model coupled to gravity with a negative cosmological constant. With appropriate choices of parameters, the geometry con…
Bulk viscosity of strongly coupled plasmas with holographic duals
Steven S. Gubser, Silviu S. Pufu, Fabio D. Rocha
We explain a method for computing the bulk viscosity of strongly coupled thermal plasmas dual to supergravity backgrounds supported by one scalar field. Whereas earlier investigati…
Entropy production in collisions of gravitational shock waves and of heavy ions
Steven S. Gubser, Silviu S. Pufu, Amos Yarom
We calculate the area of a marginally trapped surface formed by a head-on collision of gravitational shock waves in AdS_D. We use this to obtain a lower bound on the entropy produc…
The gravity dual of a p-wave superconductor
Steven S. Gubser, Silviu S. Pufu
We construct black hole solutions to the Yang-Mills equations in an AdS_4-Schwarzschild background which exhibit superconductivity. What makes these backgrounds p-wave superconduct…
Thermodynamics and bulk viscosity of approximate black hole duals to finite temperature quantum chromodynamics
Steven S. Gubser, Abhinav Nellore, Silviu S. Pufu +1
We consider classes of translationally invariant black hole solutions whose equations of state closely resemble that of QCD at zero chemical potential. We use these backgrounds to…
Mimicking the QCD equation of state with a dual black hole
Steven S. Gubser, Abhinav Nellore
We present numerical and analytical studies of the equation of state of translationally invariant black hole solutions to five-dimensional gravity coupled to a single scalar. As an…
Colorful horizons with charge in anti-de Sitter space
Steven S. Gubser
An abelian gauge symmetry can be spontaneously broken near a black hole horizon in anti-de Sitter space using a condensate of non-abelian gauge fields. There is a second order phas…
Gluon energy loss in the gauge-string duality
Steven S. Gubser, Daniel R. Gulotta, Silviu S. Pufu +1
We estimate the stopping length of an energetic gluon in a thermal plasma of strongly coupled N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory by representing the gluon as a doubled string rising up ou…
Linearized hydrodynamics from probe-sources in the gauge-string duality
Steven S. Gubser, Amos Yarom
We study the response of an infinite, asymptotically static N=4 plasma to a generic localized source in the probe approximation. At large distances, the energy momentum tensor of t…
Breaking an Abelian gauge symmetry near a black hole horizon
Steven S. Gubser
I argue that coupling the Abelian Higgs model to gravity plus a negative cosmological constant leads to black holes which spontaneously break the gauge invariance via a charged sca…