Horizon Formation and Far-from-Equilibrium Isotropization in a Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Plasma

Abstract

Using gauge-gravity duality, we study the creation and evolution of anisotropic, homogeneous strongly coupled N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills plasma. In the dual gravitational description, this corresponds to horizon formation in a geometry driven to be anisotropic by a time-dependent change in boundary conditions.