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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…
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…
On the energy deposited by a quark moving in an N=4 SYM plasma
Amos Yarom
We evaluate the energy momentum tensor of a massive quark as it moves through an N=4 SYM quark gluon plasma at constant velocity. We find that in the near-quark region, where the d…
The high momentum behavior of a quark wake
Amos Yarom
Using the AdS/CFT duality, we analytically evaluate the high momentum (or short distance) behavior of the color field strength due to a moving quark in an N=4 SYM plasma. We find a…