Thermal quenches in N = 2* plasmas

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Buchel, Alex ^a,b   Lehner, Luis ^a,c   Myers, Robert C ^a  

^a PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

AdS CFT Correspondence; Gauge gravity correspondence; Holography and quark gluon plasmas; Quantum Dissipative Systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865210851     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2012)049     Document Type: Article

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