Heavy quarks in rotating plasma via holography

TL;DR

This paper investigates the behavior of heavy quarks in a rotating strongly coupled plasma using holographic duality, providing new formulas for drag force and thermal mass in rotating frames.

Contribution

It extends holographic models of quark-gluon plasma to include rotation, deriving relations for drag force and thermal mass in rotating backgrounds with arbitrary parameters.

Findings

Drag force expressions in rotating frames

Thermal mass dependence on rotation at high temperature

Suppression of rotational effects at high temperature

Abstract

We continue to explore the dynamics of a heavy quark in a strongly coupled rotating quark-gluon plasma within the holographic framework. We use the 5d Kerr-AdS black hole with two arbitrary rotating parameters to describe the rotating quark-gluon plasma. We present the relations for the drag force acting on the heavy quark both in the rotating- and static-at-infinity frames for arbitrary choice of the rotational parameters. We also calculate the thermal mass of a static quark in different frames and show that at high-$T$ limit the dependence on rotation is suppressed.