Tuesday, May 8, 2012

1104.5469 (Curtis T. Asplund et al.)

Evidence for fast thermalization in the plane-wave matrix model    [PDF]

Curtis T. Asplund, David Berenstein, Diego Trancanelli
We perform a numerical simulation of the classical evolution of the plane-wave matrix model with semiclassical initial conditions. Some of these initial conditions thermalize and are dual to a black hole forming from the collision of D-branes in the plane wave geometry. In particular, we consider a large fuzzy sphere (a D2-brane) plus a single eigenvalue (a D0-particle) going exactly through the center of the fuzzy sphere and aimed to intersect it. Including quantum fluctuations of the off-diagonal modes in the initial conditions, with sufficient kinetic energy the configuration collapses to a small size. We also find evidence for fast thermalization: rapidly decaying autocorrelation functions at late times with respect to the natural time scale of the system.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.5469

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