Quarkonium dissociation in strongly coupled far-from-equilibrium matter: holographic description

Abstract The heavy quarkonium real-time dissociation in a strongly coupled non-Abelian matter relaxing to equilibrium is described in a holographic approach. Boundary sourcing, impulsive distortions of the boundary metric, are used to mimic effects driving the matter far-from-equilibrium. Quarkonium is represented by a string with endpoints kept close to the boundary, and its evolution in the time-dependent geometry is studied.