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Strongly coupled plasma with electric and magnetic charges

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

A number of theoretical and lattice results lead us to believe that Quark-Gluon Plasma not too far from TcT_c contains not only electrically charged quasiparticles -- quarks and gluons -- but magnetically charged ones -- monopoles and dyons -- as well. Although binary systems like charge-monopole and charge-dyon were considered in details before in both classical and quantum settings, it is the first study of coexisting electric and magnetic particles in many-body context. We perform Molecular Dynamics study of strongly coupled plasmas with 1000\sim 1000 particles and different fraction of magnetic charges. Correlation functions and Kubo formulae lead to such transport properties as diffusion constant, shear viscosity and electric conductivity: we compare the first two with empirical data from RHIC experiments as well as results from AdS/CFT correspondence. We also study a number of collective excitations in these systems.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0611131,
  title  = {Strongly coupled plasma with electric and magnetic charges},
  author = {Jinfeng Liao and Edward Shuryak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0611131},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

2nd version, 22 pages, 32 figures: two important new figures have been included to compare our results with RHIC experiments and AdS/CFT results; a few new references and comments are added as well