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Fluctuation dynamics in a relativistic fluid with a critical point

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-09-09 v1 Statistical Mechanics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Theory

Abstract

To describe dynamics of bulk and fluctuations near the QCD critical point we develop general relativistic fluctuation formalism for a fluid carrying baryon charge. Feedback of fluctuations modifies hydrodynamic coefficients including bulk viscosity and conductivity and introduces nonlocal and non-instantaneous terms in constitutive equations. We perform necessary ultraviolet (short-distance) renormalization to obtain cutoff independent deterministic equations suitable for numerical implementation. We use the equations to calculate the universal non-analytic small-frequency dependence of transport coefficients due to fluctuations (long-time tails). Focusing on the critical mode we show how this general formalism matches existing Hydro+ description of fluctuations near the QCD critical point and nontrivially extends it inside and outside of the critical region.

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@article{arxiv.1912.13456,
  title  = {Fluctuation dynamics in a relativistic fluid with a critical point},
  author = {Xin An and Gokce Basar and Mikhail Stephanov and Ho-Ung Yee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.13456},
  year   = {2020}
}

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33 pages, 1 figure