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A two-dimensional Yukawa liquid is studied using two different nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulation methods. Shear viscosity values in the limit of small shear rates are reported for a wide range of Coulomb coupling parameter and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-16 Z. Donkó , J. Goree , P. Hartmann , K. Kutasi

A synoptic review of the electrical circuital model-based analysis of laboratory plasma sheaths, alongside their stability features in a realistic broader horizon, is systematically presented herein. It explains the basic physics…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-06-05 Pralay Kumar Karmakar , Subham Dutta , Utpal Deka

We use the Chapman-Enskog method to investigate the shear viscosity of the quark-gluon plasma with a focus on its relation to parton cross sections. We use the recently obtained analytical expression for the shear viscosity $\eta$ of a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-29 Okey Ohanaka , Zi-Wei Lin

A novel technique is used to compute the bulk viscosity of high temperature holographic gauge theory plasmas with softly broken conformal symmetry. Working in a black hole background which corresponds to a non-trivial solution to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-05-12 Amos Yarom

The cascading gauge theory of Klebanov et.al realizes a soluble example of gauge/string correspondence in a non-conformal setting. Such a gauge theory has a strong coupling scale Lambda, below which it confines with a chiral symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-07-22 Alex Buchel

We investigate bulk and shear viscosities of the gluon plasma within relaxation time approximation to an effective Boltzmann-Vlasov type kinetic theory by viewing the plasma as describable in terms of quasigluon excitations with temperature…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-20 M. Bluhm , B. Kampfer , K. Redlich

We use low-energy effective description of gauge theory/string theory duality to argue that the Kovtun-Son-Starinets viscosity bound is generically violated in superconformal gauge theories with non-equal central charges $c\ne a$. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-03-19 Alex Buchel , Robert C. Myers , Aninda Sinha

The viscosity of strongly interacting systems is a topic of great interest in diverse fields. We focus here on the bulk and shear viscosities of \emph{non-relativistic} quantum fluids, with particular emphasis on strongly interacting…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-11-20 Edward Taylor , Mohit Randeria

The viscosity tensor of the magnetized one-component plasma, consisting of five independent shear viscosity coefficients, a bulk viscosity coefficient, and a cross coefficient, is computed using equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-12-30 Brett Scheiner , Scott Baalrud

It is found that in magnetized electrostatic plasma flows the velocity shear couples ion-acoustic waves with ion-cyclotron waves and leads, under favorable conditions, to their efficient reciprocal transformations. It is shown that in a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Andria Rogava , Grigol Gogoberidze

The present article has addressed the finite magnetic field extension of the previous work by Cho et al. (Phys. Rev. B 108, 235172, 2023) on microscopic calculation of shear viscosity for electron fluid in graphene system. Our calculation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-12 Cho Win Aung , Thandar Zaw Win , Subhalaxmi Nayak , Sabyasachi Ghosh

We propose that for conformal field theories admitting gravity duals, the thermal conductivity is fixed by the central charges in a universal manner. Though we do not have a proof as yet, we have checked our proposal against several…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Sachin Jain

We propose a method for extracting the shear viscosity over entropy density ratio (eta/s) of the quark-gluon plasma from experimental data. We argue that uncertainty due to poor knowledge of the earliest stages of a heavy-ion collision is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-14 Matthew Luzum , Jean-Yves Ollitrault

We confront exact analytical predictions for the finite-volume scaling of the chiral condensate with data from quenched lattice gauge theory simulations. Using staggered fermions in both the fundamental and adjoint representations, and…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-31 P. H. Damgaard , R. G. Edwards , U. M. Heller , R. Narayanan

Shearing with a finite shear rate a compressed granular system results in a region of grains flowing over a compact, static assembly. Perforce this region is dilated to a degree that depends on the shear rate, the loading pressure, gravity,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-29 Prasenjit Das , H. George E. Hentschel , Itamar Procaccia

In recent years, there has been a significant effort to extract the temperature-dependent shear ($\eta/s$) and bulk ($\zeta/s$) viscosity over entropy ratios of the quark-gluon plasma from a global comparison of heavy-ion data with results…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-02-28 Fernando G. Gardim , Jean-Yves Ollitrault

We investigate the shear viscosity of leptons in a strongly coupled quark gluon plasma (QGP). We find that the shear viscosity due to the lepton-quark scattering is inversely proportional to the ratio of electric conductivity of the QGP to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Berndt Müller , Di-Lun Yang

We use the real-time finite-temperature AdS/CFT correspondence to compute the effect of general R^2 corrections to the gravitational action in AdS space on the shear viscosity of the dual gauge theory. The R^2 terms in AdS_5 are determined…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-27 Yevgeny Kats , Pavel Petrov

In recent work we showed that, for a class of conformal field theories (CFT) with Gauss-Bonnet gravity dual, the shear viscosity to entropy density ratio, $\eta/s$, could violate the conjectured Kovtun-Starinets-Son viscosity bound,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Mauro Brigante , Hong Liu , Robert C. Myers , Stephen Shenker , Sho Yaida

We demonstrate that the unitarity of quantum field theory, through the positivity of spectral functions, underlies thermodynamic irreversibility for a subsystem separated by a horizon, in direct analogy with the irreversibility of…

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