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Kubo formulas for thermodynamic transport coefficients

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-10-05 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Theory

Abstract

Uncharged relativistic fluids in 3+1 dimensions have three independent thermodynamic transport coefficients at second order in the derivative expansion. Fluids with a single global U(1)U(1) current have nine, out of which seven are parity preserving. We derive the Kubo formulas for all nine thermodynamic transport coefficients in terms of equilibrium correlation functions of the energy-momentum tensor and the current. All parity-preserving coefficients can be expressed in terms of two-point functions in flat space without external sources, while the parity-violating coefficients require three-point functions. We use the Kubo formulas to compute the thermodynamic coefficients in several examples of free field theories.

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@article{arxiv.1806.05774,
  title  = {Kubo formulas for thermodynamic transport coefficients},
  author = {Pavel Kovtun and Ashish Shukla},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.05774},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

v1: 21 pages, 1 figure; v2: footnotes added, version published in JHEP

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