by
Francesco Bigazzi(Florence University and INFN Florence)
→
Europe/Stockholm
A5:1041
A5:1041
Description
In highly energetic collisions of heavy ions, a novel state of matter, called quark-gluon plasma, is produced. Data collected since year 2000 at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and the first findings at LHC, suggest that the plasma behaves like a nearly ideal liquid and thus that it is inherently strongly coupled. Understanding its dynamical properties is very challenging for theoretical physics. Holographic techniques, mapping strongly coupled quantum field theories to weakly coupled higher dimensional theories of gravity, could help in providing novel complementary tools. In this context, I will present a class of charged black hole solutions dual to strongly coupled gauge theories, coupled to massless fundamental flavors, at finite temperature and finite quark chemical potential. I will discuss the thermodynamical and hydrodynamical properties of these models.