Residues of Correlators in the Strongly Coupled N=4 Plasma

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dc.creatorAmado, Irene
dc.creatorHoyos, Carlos
dc.creatorLandsteiner, Karl
dc.creatorMontero, Sergio
dc.date2007-10-24
dc.date2008-02-28
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:12:34Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T11:12:34Z
dc.descriptionQuasinormal modes of asymptotically AdS black holes can be interpreted as poles of retarded correlators in the dual gauge theory. To determine the response of the system to small external perturbations it is not enough to know the location of the poles: one also needs to know the residues. We compute them for R-charge currents and find that they are complex except for the hydrodynamic mode, whose residue is purely imaginary. For different quasinormal modes the residue grows with momentum q, whereas for the hydrodynamic mode it behaves as a damped oscillation with distinct zeroes at finite q. Similar to collective excitations at weak coupling the hydrodynamic mode decouples at short wavelengths. Knowledge of the residues allows as well to define the time scale t_H from when on the system enters the hydrodynamic regime, restricting the validity of hydrodynamic simulations to times t>t_H.
dc.description10 pages, 3 figures, revtex4, v2: improved exposition and figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0710.4458
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0710.4458
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.D77:065004,2008
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevD.77.065004
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/191424
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.titleResidues of Correlators in the Strongly Coupled N=4 Plasma
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