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A theoretical framework for the calculation of shear and bulk viscosities of hadronic matter at finite temperature is presented. The framework is based on the quasi-particle picture. It allows for an arbitrary number of hadron species with…

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The linear dispersion properties of transverse shear waves in a strongly coupled dusty plasma are experimentally studied by exciting them in a controlled manner with a variable frequency external source. The dusty plasma is maintained in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-07-07 P. Bandyopadhyay , G. Prasad , A. Sen , P. K. Kaw

Shear viscosity is a measure of the amount of dissipation in a simple fluid. In kinetic theory shear viscosity is related to the rate of momentum transport by quasi-particles, and the uncertainty relation suggests that the ratio of shear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-18 Thomas Schaefer , Derek Teaney

The shear viscosity of a two-component Fermi gas in the normal phase is calculated as a function of temperature in the unitarity limit, taking into account strong-coupling effects that give rise to a pseudogap in the spectral density for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. M. Bruun , H. Smith

We present an ab initio calculation of the shear viscosity as a function of interaction strength in a two-component unpolarized Fermi gas near the unitary limit, within a finite temperature quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) framework and using the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-08-08 Gabriel Wlazłowski , Wei Quan , Aurel Bulgac

Using first-principles quantum field-theoretical methods, we investigate the shear and bulk viscosities of strongly magnetized relativistic plasmas. The analysis is performed within the weak-coupling approximation and utilizes known results…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-17 Ritesh Ghosh , Igor A. Shovkovy

We measure the shear viscosity in a two-component Fermi gas of atoms, tuned to a broad s-wave collisional (Feshbach) resonance. At resonance, the atoms strongly interact and exhibit universal behavior, where the equilibrium thermodynamic…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-01-18 C. Cao , E. Elliott , H. Wu , J. E. Thomas

Within the framework of relativistic fluctuating hydrodynamics we compute the contribution of thermal fluctuations to the effective infrared shear viscosity of a conformal fluid, focusing on quadratic (in fluctuations), second order (in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 J. Peralta-Ramos , E. Calzetta

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…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-09-13 Hui Liu , Defu Hou , Jiarong Li

We study the shear viscosity of a dilute Fermi gas as a function of the scattering length in the vicinity of the unitarity limit. The calculation is based on kinetic theory, which provides a systematic approach to transport properties in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-12-17 Marcus Bluhm , Thomas Schaefer

The shear viscosity coefficient of the one-component plasma is calculated with unprecedented accuracy using equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations and the Green-Kubo relation. Numerical and statistical uncertainties and their mitigation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-10-13 Jerome Daligault , Kim O. Rasmussen , Scott D. Baalrud

We study thermalization of strongly coupled gauge theory plasma in the presence of magnetic field using the AdS/CFT correspondence. We utilize the falling energy-shell model as a holographic description of gauge theory plasma undergoing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-11-06 Kiminad A. Mamo , Ho-Ung Yee

We explain a method for computing the bulk viscosity of strongly coupled thermal plasmas dual to supergravity backgrounds supported by one scalar field. Whereas earlier investigations required the computation of the leading dissipative term…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-10 Steven S. Gubser , Silviu S. Pufu , Fabio D. Rocha

We use gauge theory/string theory correspondence to study the bulk viscosity of strongly coupled, mass deformed SU(N_c) N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills plasma, also known as N=2^* gauge theory. For a wide range of masses we confirm the bulk…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-05-12 Alex Buchel , Chris Pagnutti

One of the most remarkable features of the Quark Gluon Plasma is its nearly perfect fluidity behavior indicated by the small shear viscosity to entropy density ratio obtained from fitting relativistic viscous hydrodynamics flow harmonics to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-12-22 Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler

We consider possible conformal field theory (CFT) descriptions of the various inertial ranges that exist in $2d$ duality invariant Magnetohydrodynamics. Such models arise as effective theories of dyonic plasmas in 3 dimensions in which all…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 O. Coceal , W. A. Sabra , S. Thomas

This review highlights some of the lessons that the holographic gauge/gravity duality has taught us regarding the behavior of the shear viscosity to entropy density in strongly coupled field theories. The viscosity to entropy ratio has been…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-19 Sera Cremonini

We consider an effective field theory description of beyond-quasi-particle excitations aiming to associate the transport properties of the system with the spectral density of states. Tuning various properties of the many-particle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-30 M. Horváth , A. Jakovác

The influence of viscosity gradient (due to shear flow) on low frequency collective modes in strongly coupled dusty plasma is analyzed. It is shown that for a well known viscoelastic plasma model, the velocity shear dependent viscosity…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 D. Banerjee , M. S. Janaki , N. Chakrabarti , M. Chaudhuri

We compute the shear viscosity of the unitary Fermi gas above the superfluid transition temperature, using a diagrammatic technique that starts from the exact Kubo formula. The formalism obeys a Ward identity associated with scale…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-02-01 Tilman Enss , Rudolf Haussmann , Wilhelm Zwerger