On holographic thermalization and gravitational collapse of massless scalar fields

• Published in: The journal of high energy physics Vol. 2012; no. 10
• Main Author: Wu, Bin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer-Verlag 01.10.2012; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Classical and Quantum Gravitation; Elementary Particles; Gravitational collapse; High energy physics; Physics; Physics and Astronomy; Quantum Field Theories; Quantum Field Theory; Quantum Physics; Relativity Theory; Scalars; String Theory; Thermalization (energy absorption); AdS-CFT Correspondence; Holography and quark-gluon plasmas

A bstract In this paper we study thermalization in a strongly coupled system via AdS/CFT. Initially, the energy is injected into the system by turning on a spatially homogenous scalar source coupled to a marginal composite operator. The thermalization process is studied by numerically solving Einste...