Real-time Dynamics of Plasma Balls from Holography

Understand

Plasma balls are droplets of deconfined plasma surrounded by a confining vacuum.

• We present the first holographic simulation of their real-time evolution via the dynamics of localized, finite-energy black holes in the five-dimensional anti-de Sitter (AdS) soliton background.
• The dual gauge theory is four-dimensional, N=4 super Yang-Mills compactified on a circle with supersymmetry-breaking boundary conditions.
• We consider horizonless initial data sourced by a massless scalar field.