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Kinetics calculation on the shear viscosity in hot QED at finite density

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-09-13 v1

Abstract

The shear viscosity of QED plasma at finite temperature and density is calculated by solving Boltzmann equation with variational approach. The result shows the small chemical potential enhances the viscosity in leading-log order by adding a chemical potential quadratic term to the viscosity for the pure temperature environment.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0508237,
  title  = {Kinetics calculation on the shear viscosity in hot QED at finite density},
  author = {Hui Liu and Defu Hou and Jiarong Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0508237},
  year   = {2011}
}