Bjorken flow of holographic R-charged plasmas

Abstract We numerically investigate the time evolution of several physical observables for the so-called 2 R-Charge Black Hole (2RCBH) model undergoing Bjorken flow. The 2RCBH model corresponds to a top-down holographic construction describing a strongly interacting conformal fluid defined at finite temperature and R-charge density. Taken together with previous findings for the purely thermal $$\mathcal {N}=4$$ N = 4 Supersymmetric Yang–Mills (SYM) plasma, and the 1 R-Charge Black Hole (1RCBH) model, our results for the 2RCBH model provide strong numerical evidence for the existence of far-from-equilibrium correlations between the non-equilibrium holographic entropy defined through the area of the apparent horizon of dynamical bulk black holes, and the expectation value of the energy–momentum tensor of the dual boundary quantum field theory. Such correlations are relevant in the pre-hydrodynamic stages of some initial data evolved in time, and seem to hold at least for strongly interacting conformal fluids, be they charged or neutral.