Buchel, AlexOtero Camaño, XiánEdelstein Glaubach, José Daniel2020-04-142020-04-142014Buchel, A., Camanho, X. and Edelstein, J., 2014. Cavitation effects on the confinement/deconfinement transition. Physics Letters B, 734, 131-1330370-2693http://hdl.handle.net/10347/21364Cavitation is a process where the viscous terms in a relativistic fluid result in reducing the effective pres-sure, thus facilitating the nucleation of bubbles of a stable phase. The effect is particularly pronounced in the vicinity of a (weak) first-order phase transition. We use the holographic correspondence to study cavitation in a strongly coupled planar cascading gauge theory plasma close to the confinement/decon-finement phase transition. While in this particular model the shift of the deconfinement temperature due to cavitation does not exceed 5%, we speculate that cavitation might be important near the QCD critical pointeng© 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/journal article10.1016/j.physletb.2014.05.0471873-2445open access