Quasinormal modes and thermalization in improved holographic QCD

Timo Alho (Department of Physics and Helsinki Institute of Physics, P.O. Box 64, FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland) ; Jere Remes (Department of Physics and Helsinki Institute of Physics, P.O. Box 64, FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland) ; Kimmo Tuominen (Department of Physics and Helsinki Institute of Physics, P.O. Box 64, FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland) ; Aleksi Vuorinen (Department of Physics and Helsinki Institute of Physics, P.O. Box 64, FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland)

Following a series of similar calculations in simpler nonconformal holographic setups, we determine the quasinormal mode spectrum for an operator dual to a gauge-invariant scalar field within the improved holographic QCD framework. At temperatures somewhat above the critical temperature of the deconfinement transition, we find a small number of clearly separated modes followed by a branch-cut-like structure parallel to the real axis, the presence of which is linked to the form of the IHQCD potential employed. The temperature dependence of the lowest nonzero mode is furthermore used to study the thermalization time of the corresponding correlator, which is found to be of the order of the inverse critical temperature near the phase transition and decrease slightly faster than 1/T at higher temperatures.

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Published on:
26 May 2020
Publisher:
APS
Published in:
Physical Review D , Volume 101 (2020)
Issue 10
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.101.106025
arXiv:
2002.09544
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Published by the American Physical Society
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