Drag force in AdS/CFT

By S. Gubser. 2006

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The AdS/CFT correspondence and a classical test string approximation are used to calculate the drag force on an external quark moving in a thermal plasma of N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory. This computation is motivated by the phenomenon of jet-quenching in relativistic heavy ion collisions.

Subfields: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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2. M. Rangamani
3. S. Hartnoll
4. S. Gubser
5. R. Myers
6. T. Takayanagi
7. E. Kiritsis
8. S. Sachdev

Citations in the corpus

• Heavy ions and string theory (2013, background): “A framework for understanding the drag force and stochastic forces on heavy quarks moving through a thermal plasma of N = 4 super-Yang-Mills theory was built up in a series of articles [129, 130, 131, 132, 133].”
• Strongly correlated quantum fluids: ultracold quantum gases, quantum chromodynamic plasmas and holographic duality (2012, background): “Using holographic duality one finds [289, 290, 291]”
• Comparing the drag force on heavy quarks in N = 4 super-Yang-Mills theory and QCD (2006, background): “Computations of the drag force on a heavy quark moving through a thermal state of strongly coupled N = 4 super-Yang-Mills theory have appeared recently [1, 2, 3].”
• A Holographic View on Physics out of Equilibrium (2010, background): “The simplest computation of the energy loss was originally considered in [87, 89].”
• Brownian Motion in AdS/CFT (2008, positive): “However, this is consistent with the known results for test quarks moving in the thermal N = 4 super Yang-Mills plasma [20, 21, 22, 24].”
• Momentum fluctuations of heavy quarks in the gauge-string duality (2006, methodology): “arises from a classical string configuration [1, 2] in the AdS5-Schwarzschild background, ds(2) = L(2) z(2) Hy ( −hdt(2) + d~x(2) + z 2 Hdy 2 h ) h ≡ 1 − y(4) zH = 1 πT , (16)”
• Metallic AdS/CFT (2007, methodology): “This comparison also shows that the non-linear effects in e can be explained in terms of the pseudo-relativistic behavior of the quasi-particles displayed in eq.”
• Holography and thermodynamics of 5D dilaton-gravity (2008, background): “Similar remarks hold for other phenomenologically interesting observables as the drag force and the jet quenching parameter [25, 26, 27].”
• Viscosity, Black Holes, and Quantum Field Theory (2007, methodology): “Recently, the AdS/CFT correspondence was used to compute the energy loss rate of a quark in the fundamental representation moving in a finite-temperature plasma [42,43,44,45].”