The Imaginary Part of the Static Potential in Strongly Coupled Anisotropic Plasma

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Using the gauge/gravity duality we study the imaginary part of the static potential associated to the thermal width in finite temperature strongly coupled anisotropic plasma.

• We firstly derive the potential for a generic anisotropic background.
• Then we apply our formulas to a theory where the anisotropy has been generated by a space dependent axion term.
• We find that using our method there exist a peculiar turning point in the imaginary part of the potential, similar to the one appearing in the real part.