Using gauge-gravity duality, we study the creation and evolution of anisotropic, homogeneous strongly coupled $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills plasma. In the dual gravitational description, this corresponds to horizon formation in a geometry driven to be anisotropic by a time-dependent change in boundary conditions.

• Received 26 February 2009

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.211601