2014/06/30 by B. Craps, Ben Craps, Erik Lindgren +7 · 28 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Amplitude #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Black brane #Black hole (networking) #Boundary value problem #Brane #Classical mechanics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Entropy (arrow of time) #Extremal black hole #Field (mathematics) #Gauge theory #Geometry #Gravitation #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Mathematical physics #Physics #Quantum electrodynamics #Quantum mechanics #Scalar (mathematics) #Scalar field #Theoretical physics #Thermalisation #gr-qc #hep-ph #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.90.086004
published in Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields 90(8) (American Physical Society) · 7 pages, 4 figures
openalex publication_date 2014/10/03 · arxiv created 2014/12/15 · arxiv updated 2014/12/16 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
An infalling shell in the hard wall model provides a simple holographic model for energy injection in a confining gauge theory. Depending on its parameters, a scalar shell either collapses into a large black brane, or scatters between the hard wall and the anti--de Sitter boundary. In the scattering regime, we find numerical solutions that keep oscillating for as long as we have followed their evolution, and we provide an analytic argument that shows that a black brane can never be formed. This provides examples of states in infinite-volume field theory that never thermalize. We find that the field theory expectation value of a scalar operator keeps oscillating, with an amplitude that undergoes modulation.