Fermi-liquid view of viscosity in cold and dense nucleon matter
Abstract
We develop a framework to calculate transport properties in cold, dense relativistic quasiparticle system within the Fermi-liquid theory at the mean-field level. Building on our previous study [Phys. Rev. C 111, 044904 (2025)], we start from the linearized relativistic Boltzmann equation tailored to quasiparticles with medium-dependent dispersion relation and implement Landau matching conditions, proving that the bulk viscosity is manifestly nonnegative. A low-temperature expansion then yields leading-order () expressions for the shear () and bulk () viscosities, where the behavior in the degenerate regime is found to be robust against quasiparticle mass correction. We couple the kinetic framework to a Walecka-type mean-field equation of state and compute and for cold, dense nucleon matter. The transport properties of nucleonic matter in the degenerate regime can be relevant for intermediate beam-energy nuclear experiments.
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@article{arxiv.2512.01544,
title = {Fermi-liquid view of viscosity in cold and dense nucleon matter},
author = {Jianing Li and Weiyao Ke and Jin Hu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.01544},
year = {2025}
}
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8 pages, 3 figures. Comments are welcome