Phase Transitions in an Expanding Medium: Hot Remnants
We analyze the dynamics of a first order confinement-deconfinement phase transition in an expanding medium using an effective boundary description fitted to the holographic Witten model. We observe and analyze hot plasma remnants, which do not cool down or nucleate bubbles despite the expansion of the system. The appearance of the hot remnants, the dynamics of their shrinking, and subsequent dissolution and further heating up is very robust and persists in such diverse scenarios as boost-invariant expansion with a flat Minkowski metric and cosmological expansion in a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker spacetime.
Authors
- Jacob Sonnenschein (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9283-1554)
- Matti Järvinen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9916-6275)
- Karl J. Friston
Institutions
- Pohang University of Science and Technology (KR)
- Jagiellonian University (PL)
- Tel Aviv University (IL)
- Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics (KR)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Physical Review Letters
- Published
- 2025-06-30
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/wphs-1kfd
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.32
Funders
- National Research Foundation
- National Research Foundation of Korea
- Ministry of Science and ICT, South Korea
- Planning and Budgeting Committee of the Council for Higher Education of Israel