Universal hydrodynamic flow in holographic planar shock collisions

We study the collision of planar shock waves in AdS5 as a function of shock profile. In the dual field theory the shock waves describe planar sheets of energy whose collision results in the formation of a plasma which behaves hydrodynamically at late times. We find that the post-collision stress ten...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Chesler, Paul M., Kilbertus, Niki, van der Schee, Wilke
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103934
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2477-6623