Dissipative force on an external quark in heavy quark cloud

Abstract

Within the finite temperature N=4 strongly coupled super-Yang–Mills, we compute the dissipative force on an external quark in the presence of evenly distributed heavy quark cloud. This is computed holographically by constructing the corresponding gravity dual. We study the behaviour of this force as a function of the cloud density. Along the way we also analyze the stability of the gravity dual for vector and tensor perturbations.