Speakers
Fulvia De Fazio
(INFN Sezione di Bari)
Fulvia De Fazio
(Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))
Description
The thermalization process of an out-of-equilibrium boost-invariant strongly interacting non-Abelian
plasma is investigated using a holographic method. Boundary sourcing, a distortion of the boundary metric,
is employed to drive the system far from equilibrium. Thermalization is analyzed in the fully dynamical
system through nonlocal probes: the equal-time two-point correlation function of large conformal
dimension operators in the boundary theory, and Wilson loops of different shapes. A dependence of
the thermalization time on the size of the probes is found, which can be compared to the result of local
observables: the onset of thermalization is first observed at short distances.
Author
Fulvia De Fazio
(INFN Sezione di Bari)
