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Holographic entropy production in a Bjorken expanding hot and dense strongly coupled quantum fluid

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Author(s):
Rougemont, Romulo ; Barreto, Willians
Total Authors: 2
Document type: Journal article
Source: PHYSICAL REVIEW D; v. 106, n. 12, p. 45-pg., 2022-12-23.
Abstract

We analyze the time evolution of several physical observables, namely the pressure anisotropy, the scalar condensate, the charge density, and also, for the first time, the nonequilibrium entropy for a Bjorken expanding strongly coupled N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills plasma charged under an Abelian U(1) subgroup of the global SU(4) R symmetry. This represents a far-from-equilibrium, hot and dense strongly coupled quantum fluid with a critical point in its phase diagram. For some sets of initial data preserving all the energy conditions, dynamically driven transient violations of the dominant and the weak energy conditions are observed when the plasma is still far from the hydrodynamic regime. The energy conditions violations get stronger at larger values of the chemical potential to temperature ratio, mu/T, indicating that those violations become more relevant as the strongly coupled quantum fluid approaches its critical regime. For some of those energy conditions violations, a clear correlation with different plateau structures formed in the far from equilibrium entropy is observed, indicating the presence of transient, early time windows where the Bjorken expanding plasma has zero entropy production even while being far from equilibrium. The hydrodynamization of the pressure anisotropy and also the much later thermalization of the scalar condensate are generally found to be delayed, within small relative tolerances, as mu/T is increased toward criticality. The value of mu/T in the medium is enhanced by increasing its initial charge density and/or also by reducing its initial energy density. (AU)

FAPESP's process: 22/02503-9 - Three problems of numerical holography
Grantee:Willians Oswaldo Barreto Acevedo
Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants