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Holographic Gravitational Anomaly in First and Second Order Hydrodynamics

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-15 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We compute, in the framework of the fluid/gravity correspondence, the transport coefficients of a relativistic fluid affected by chiral and gauge-gravitational anomalies, including external electromagnetic fields. The computation is performed at first and second order in the hydrodynamical expansion. We use a 5-dim holographic model with pure gauge and mixed gauge-gravitational Chern-Simons terms in the action. We reproduce at first order previous results on the anomaly induced current of a magnetic field and a vortex in a relativistic fluid, and compute at second order the anomalous and non anomalous transport coefficients by using a Weyl covariant formalism. We find a dissipative and anomalous correction to the chiral magnetic conductivity due to the time dependence of the magnetic field. We also find a new contribution from the mixed gauge-gravitational anomaly to the shear waves dispersion relation. The role played by the chiral and gravitational anomalies in other transport coefficients is discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1304.5529,
  title  = {Holographic Gravitational Anomaly in First and Second Order Hydrodynamics},
  author = {Eugenio Megias and Francisco Pena-Benitez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.5529},
  year   = {2015}
}

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41 pages, 1 table, no figures and extra references included