Fluctuation dynamics in a relativistic fluid with a critical point
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