13–17 Apr 2015
The Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics (GGI)
Europe/Rome timezone

Turbulent strings in AdS/CFT

14 Apr 2015, 14:20
30m
The Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics (GGI)

The Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics (GGI)

Arcetri, Florence

Speaker

Takaaki Ishii

Description

I will talk about nonlinear dynamics of the flux tube between an external quark-antiquark pair in N=4 SYM using the dual string description in AdS/CFT. Perturbing the endpoints of the string and numerically computing its nonlinear time evolution, I will show that cusps can be formed on the string. I will discuss a connection between this phenomenon and turbulent behavior in the energy spectrum.

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