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The shear viscosity of quark gluon plasma is customarily estimated in the literature using kinetic theory, which, however, is well known to break down for dense interacting systems. Here we propose an alternative theoretical approach based…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-01 Alessio Zaccone

The evaluation of hydrodynamic transport coefficients in relativistic field theory, and the emergence of an effective kinetic theory description, is examined. Even in a weakly-coupled scalar field theory, interesting subtleties arise at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Sangyong Jeon , Laurence G. Yaffe

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

In (2+1)-dimensional systems with broken parity, there exists yet another transport coefficient, appearing at the same order as the shear viscosity in the hydrodynamic derivative expansion. In condensed matter physics, it is referred to as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-08-23 Omid Saremi , Dam Thanh Son

We derive an analytic expression for the shear viscosity of an ultra-relativistic gas in presence of both elastic $2\to 2$ and inelastic $2\leftrightarrow 3$ processes with isotropic differential cross sections. The derivation is based on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-04-28 Andrej El , Francesco Lauciello , Christian Wesp , Ioannis Bouras , Zhe Xu , Carsten Greiner

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

This work establishes an exact relationship between the zero-shear viscosity and the radius of gyration for generalized Rouse model with arbitrary network configurations. Building on this fundamental relationship, we develop a random graph…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-27 Bohan Lyu , Jie Lin

In this work, we investigate the shear elasticity and the shear viscosity in a simple holographic axion model with broken translational symmetry and rotational symmetry in space via the perturbation computation. We find that, in the case of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-31 Lei Li , Wei-Jia Li , Xiao-Mei Kuang

Among the key features of hot and dense QCD matter produced in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC is its very low shear viscosity, indicative of the properties of a near-ideal fluid, and a large opacity demonstrated by jet…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-12-09 John Fuini , Nasser S. Demir , Dinesh K. Srivastava , Steffen A. Bass

It is now well understood that the coefficient of shear viscosity of boundary fluid can be obtained from the horizon values of the effective coupling of transverse graviton in bulk spacetime. In this paper we observe that to find the shear…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-17 Nabamita Banerjee , Suvankar Dutta

Recent progress in extracting the specific shear viscosity of the Quark-Gluon Plasma from phenomenological studies is highlighted.

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-07-07 Chun Shen , Ulrich Heinz

We study the transport properties of a relativistic fluid affected by chiral and gauge-gravitational anomalies. The computation is performed in the framework of the fluid/gravity correspondence for a 5 dim holographic model with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Eugenio Megias , Francisco Pena-Benitez

Using the anti-de Sitter/conformal field theory correspondence, we relate the shear viscosity \eta of the finite-temperature N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in the large N, strong-coupling regime with the absorption cross section of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-18 G. Policastro , D. T. Son , A. O. Starinets

We present an efficient method for computing the zero frequency limit of transport coefficients in strongly coupled field theories described holographically by higher derivative gravity theories. Hydrodynamic parameters such as shear…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-23 Miguel F. Paulos

Shear viscosity is a crucial property of QCD matter which determines the collective behavior of the the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. Extending the near-equilibrium, high-precision investigations in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 Michael F. Wondrak , Matthias Kaminski , Marcus Bleicher

We calculate the transport coefficient of hadronic matter in the presence of temperature and magnetic field using the linear sigma model. In the relaxation time approximation, we estimate the shear viscosity over entropy density $\eta/s$.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-22 Ritesh Ghosh , Najmul Haque

One of the most striking results from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider is the strong elliptic flow. This review summarizes what is observed and how these results are combined with reasonable theoretical assumptions to estimate the shear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-12-21 Derek A. Teaney

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 study the properties of the holographic CFT dual to Gauss-Bonnet gravity in general $D \ge 5$ dimensions. We establish the AdS/CFT dictionary and in particular relate the couplings of the gravitational theory to the universal couplings…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-06-01 Alex Buchel , Jorge Escobedo , Robert C. Myers , Miguel F. Paulos , Aninda Sinha , Michael Smolkin

We have explored the shear viscosity and electrical conductivity calculations for bosonic and fermionic medium, which goes from without to with magnetic field picture and then their simplified massless expressions. In presence of magnetic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-12 Jayanta Dey , Sarthak Satapathy , Prasanta Murmu , Sabyasachi Ghosh