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Relativistic generalization of hydrodynamic theory has attracted much attention from a theoretical point of view. However, it has many important practical applications in high energy as well as astrophysical contexts. Despite various…

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We compute the hydrodynamic relaxation times $\tau_\pi$ and $\tau_j$ for hot QCD at next-to-leading order in the coupling with kinetic theory. We show that certain dimensionless ratios of second-order to first-order transport coefficients…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-02 Jacopo Ghiglieri , Guy D. Moore , Derek Teaney

We consider an off-lattice liquid crystal pair potential in strictly two dimensions. The potential is purely repulsive and short-ranged. Nevertheless, by means of a single parameter in the potential, the system is shown to undergo a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-07-17 H. H. Wensink , R. L. C. Vink

The relativistic theory of hydrodynamic fluctuations, or noise, is derived and applied to high energy heavy ion collisions. These fluctuations are inherent in any space-time varying system and are in addition to initial state fluctuations.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-01-18 Joseph Kapusta , Berndt Mueller , Misha Stephanov

The success of relativistic hydrodynamics as an essential part of the phenomenological description of heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and the LHC has motivated a significant body of theoretical work concerning its fundamental aspects. Our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-14 Wojciech Florkowski , Michal P. Heller , Michal Spalinski

Dissipative processes in relativistic fluids are known to be important in the analyses of the hot QCD matter created in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. In this work, I consider dissipative corrections to energy and conserved charge…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-10-08 Akihiko Monnai

Diffusion/score-based models have emerged as powerful generative models, capable of generating high-quality samples that mimic the training data distribution. However, it has been observed that they are prone to reproducing training…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-26 Benjamin Sterling , Mónica F. Bugallo , Tom Tirer

There has been recent progress in developing well-posed theories of relativistic viscous hydrodynamics and of gravitational effective field theories. These have in common the feature that they introduce unphysical degrees of freedom. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-17 Lorenzo Gavassino , Áron D. Kovács , Harvey S. Reall

Employing a kinetic framework, we calculate all transport coefficients for relativistic dissipative (second-order) hydrodynamics for arbitrary particle masses in the 14-moment approximation. Taking the non-relativistic limit, it is shown…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-05-07 Semyon Potesnov , David Wagner

In this work, the causality and stability of a first-order relativistic dissipative hydrodynamic theory, that redefines the hydrodynamic fields from a first principle microscopic estimation, have been analyzed. A generic approach of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-06-08 Sukanya Mitra

A new first-order theory of relativistic dissipation has been recently proposed, where viscous effects are incorporated using the traditional Navier-Stokes framework. Its main novelty is the avoidance of dynamical instabilities by allowing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-27 Lorenzo Gavassino

We develop the relativistic theory of hydrodynamic fluctuations for application to high energy heavy ion collisions. In particular, we investigate their effect on the expanding boost-invariant (Bjorken) solution of the hydrodynamic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 J. I. Kapusta , B. Müller , M. Stephanov

In the context of the M\"{u}ller-Israel-Stewart second order phenomenological theory for dissipative fluids, we analyze the effects of thermal conduction and viscosity in a relativistic fluid, just after its departure from hydrostatic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 L. Herrera , J. Martinez

An extension of the relativistic density functional approach to the equation of state for strongly interacting matter is suggested which generalizes a recently developed modified excluded-volume mechanism to the case of temperature and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-02-16 Stefan Typel , David Blaschke

We investigate conservation laws of diffusion-convection equations to construct first-order potential systems corresponding to these equations. We do two iterations of the construction procedure, looking, in the second step, for the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nataliya M. Ivanova

The recently proposed connection between the Lorentz invariance of stability and the speed of signal propagation has been tested for a first-order relativistic dissipative hydrodynamic theory. The fact that the stability situation in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-02-15 Rajesh Biswas , Sukanya Mitra , Victor Roy

We solve the Einstein constraint equations for a first-order causal viscous relativistic hydrodynamic theory in the case of a conformal fluid. For such a theory, a direct application of the conformal method does not lead to a decoupling of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-27 Marcelo M. Disconzi , James Isenberg , David Maxwell

We derive the second order hydrodynamic equations for the relativistic system of multi-components with multiple conserved currents by generalizing the Israel-Stewart theory and Grad's moment method. We find that, in addition to the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-02-25 Akihiko Monnai , Tetsufumi Hirano

I review recent selected developments in the theory and modeling of ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. I explain why relativistic viscous hydrodynamics is now used to model the expansion of the matter formed in these collisions. I give…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-09-30 Jean-Yves Ollitrault

Understanding hydrodynamization in microscopic models of heavy-ion collisions has been an important topic in current research. Many lessons obtained within the strongly-coupled (holographic) models originate from the properties of transient…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-09-24 Michal P. Heller , Viktor Svensson