QCD thermalization: Ab initio approaches and interdisciplinary connections

J Berges, MP Heller, A Mazeliauskas… - Reviews of Modern …, 2021 - APS
Heavy-ion collisions at BNL's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and CERN's Large Hadron
Collider provide strong evidence for the formation of a quark-gluon plasma, with …

Hydrodynamic attractors in ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions

J Jankowski, M Spaliński - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2023 - Elsevier
One of the many physical questions that have emerged from studies of heavy-ion collisions
at RHIC and the LHC concerns the validity of hydrodynamic modelling at the very early …

First-order general-relativistic viscous fluid dynamics

FS Bemfica, MM Disconzi, J Noronha - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
We present the first generalization of Navier-Stokes theory to relativity that satisfies all of the
following properties:(a) the system coupled to Einstein's equations is causal and strongly …

Pseudospectra of holographic quasinormal modes

D Areán, DG Fariña, K Landsteiner - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract Quasinormal modes and frequencies are the eigenvectors and eigenvalues of a
non-Hermitian differential operator. They hold crucial significance in the physics of black …

Quasinormal ringing of regular black holes in asymptotically safe gravity: the importance of overtones

RA Konoplya, AF Zinhailo, J Kunz… - … of Cosmology and …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Asymptotically safe gravity is based on the idea that the main contribution to the
Schwarzschild-like black hole spacetime is due to the value of the gravitational coupling …

Rigorous bounds on transport from causality

MP Heller, A Serantes, M Spaliński, B Withers - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We use causality to derive a number of simple and universal constraints on dispersion
relations, which describe the location of singularities of retarded two-point functions in …

Black hole perturbation theory and multiple polylogarithms

G Aminov, P Arnaudo, G Bonelli, A Grassi… - Journal of High Energy …, 2023 - Springer
A bstract We study black hole linear perturbation theory in a four-dimensional Schwarzschild
(anti) de Sitter background. When dealing with a positive cosmological constant, the …

The pseudospectra of black holes in AdS

B Cownden, C Pantelidou, M Zilhão - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2024 - Springer
A bstract We study the stability of quasinormal modes (QNMs) in electrically charged black
brane spacetimes that asymptote to AdS by means of the pseudospectrum …

Hot QCD white paper

M Arslandok, SA Bass, AA Baty, I Bautista… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Hot QCD physics studies the nuclear strong force under extreme temperature and densities.
Experimentally these conditions are achieved via high-energy collisions of heavy ions at the …

Holographic thermal correlators from supersymmetric instantons

M Dodelson, A Grassi, C Iossa, DP Lichtig… - SciPost Physics, 2023 - scipost.org
We present an exact formula for the thermal scalar two-point function in four-dimensional
holographic conformal field theories. The problem of finding it reduces to the analysis of the …