Bifurcation of Plasma Balls and Black Holes to Lobed Configurations

Understand

At high energy densities any quantum field theory is expected to have an effective hydrodynamic description.

• When combined with the gravity/gauge duality an unified picture emerges, where gravity itself can have a formal holographic hydrodynamic description.
• This provides a powerful tool to study black holes in a hydrodynamic setup.
• We study the stability of plasma balls, holographic duals of Scherck-Schwarz (SS) AdS black holes.