Holographic approach to criticality via first-order phase transition

by Maximilian Attems (CERN)

Monday 23 Nov 2020, 16:00 → 18:00 Europe/Zurich

4/3-006 - TH Conference Room (CERN)

The spinodal instability is the prime signal for the first-order phase transition in the Quantum-ChromoDynamics phase diagram. We evolve planar unstable black branes dual to a plasma with a first order phase transition subject to the spinodal instability. By varying criticality we extract characteristics of the interface between the cold and hot stable phases. We explain a new criterium for distinguishing the inhomogeneous states formed by the spinodal instability. We demonstrate the first holographical dynamical dissipation into the preferred fully phase separated final solution.

Refs:

1. Attems 2011.xxxxx

2. Attems, Bea, Casalderrey-Solana, Mateos, Zilhao, 1905.12544

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