Role of nonlocal probes of thermalization for a strongly interacting non-Abelian plasma

The thermalization process of an out-of-equilibrium boost-invariant strongly interacting non-Abelian plasma is investigated using a holographic method. Boundary sourcing, a distortion of the boundary metric, is employed to drive the system far from equilibrium. Thermalization is analyzed in the fully dynamical system through nonlocal probes: the equal-time two-point correlation function of large conformal dimension operators in the boundary theory, and Wilson loops of different shapes. A dependence of the thermalization time on the size of the probes is found, which can be compared to the result of local observables: the onset of thermalization is first observed at short distances.