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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

We have applied the Green-Kubo formula to investigate the shear viscosity in the SU(2) light-flavor quark matter at finite temperature under the external strong magnetic field e|B| ~ m^2_pi. For this purpose, we employ the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-15 Seung-il Nam , Chung-Wen Kao

We consider the phonon contribution to the bulk viscosities $\zeta_1, \zeta_2$ and $\zeta_3$ of a cold relativistic superfluid. We assume the low temperature $T$ regime and that the transport properties of the system are dominated by the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-06 Massimo Mannarelli , Cristina Manuel

The bulk viscosity ($\zeta$) of the hadronic medium has been estimated within the ambit of the Hadron Resonance Gas (HRG) model including the Hagedorn density of states. The HRG thermodynamics within a grand canonical ensemble provides the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-04-12 Golam Sarwar , Sandeep Chatterjee , Jan-e Alam

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

In the dynamics of the QCD critical point, the net-baryon fluid, linked to the slow component of the order parameter, relaxes to a 3d Ising system in equilibrium. An analytical study of shear and bulk viscosity, with constraints imposed by…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-11-29 N. G. Antoniou , F. K. Diakonos , A. S. Kapoyannis

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

The shear viscosity $\eta$ of a quark-gluon plasma in equilibrium can be calculated analytically using multiple methods or numerically using the Green-Kubo relation. It has been realized, which we confirm here, that the Chapman-Enskog…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-10-27 Noah M. MacKay , Zi-Wei Lin

We make a simple observation about two models used to treat the region near the critical temperature of QCD, quasiparticle and matrix models. While they appear very different, we show how these two models might be related. We also present…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-06 Kouji Kashiwa , Robert D. Pisarski , Vladimir V. Skokov

The shear viscosity to entropy density ratio, \eta /s, characterizes how perfect a fluid is. We calculate the leading order \eta /s of a gluon plasma in perturbation using the kinetic theory. The leading order contribution only involves the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-17 Jiunn-Wei Chen , Jian Deng , Hui Dong , Qun Wang

We develop a framework to calculate transport properties in cold, dense relativistic quasiparticle system within the Fermi-liquid theory at the mean-field level. Building on our previous study [Phys. Rev. C 111, 044904 (2025)], we start…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-02 Jianing Li , Weiyao Ke , Jin Hu

In the present paper, based on the principles of gauge/gravity duality we analytically compute the shear viscosity to entropy ratio corresponding to the superfluid phase in Einstein Gauss-Bonnet gravity. From our analysis we note that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-19 Arpan Bhattacharyya , Dibakar Roychowdhury

We compute the shear viscosity of a superfluid atomic Fermi gas in the unitarity limit. The unitarity limit is characterized by a divergent scattering length between the atoms, and it has been argued that this will result in a very small…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-11-26 Gautam Rupak , Thomas Schaefer

The bulk viscosity determines dissipation during hydrodynamic expansion. It vanishes in scale invariant fluids, while a nonzero value quantifies the deviation from scale invariance. For the dilute Fermi gas the bulk viscosity is given…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-11-20 Tilman Enss

Deep in the Earth's crust, pressure exceeds one thousand times the atmospheric pressure. Water still flows under these conditions, but experiences dramatic changes in structure and fluidity. Using combined dynamic and inelastic light…

In the framework of irreversible thermodynamics, we studied the transport properties of QGP. Shear viscosity and non-equilibrium entropy density related to viscous process at finite density has been investigated in weakly coupled limit by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Hui Liu , Defu Hou , Jiarong Li

We study the shear mode in the gauge/gravity correspondence at finite temperature. First, we confirm the general formula for the shear viscosity in an arbitrary background metric which includes a black hole in the fifth dimension. We then…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 J. I. Kapusta , T. Springer

We revisit the computation of the shear viscosity to entropy ratio $\eta/s$ at finite chemical potential in a holographic model that takes into account the quantum fluctuations in the IR region of near-extremal black branes. Such quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-05 Sera Cremonini , Li Li , Xiao-Long Liu , Jun Nian

Viscosity plays a critical role in determining the stability of rotating neutron stars. We report the results of a calculation of the shear viscosity of $\beta$~-~stable matter, carried out using an effective interaction based on a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-12-02 Omar Benhar , Arianna Carbone

Elliptic flow measurements at RHIC suggest that quark gluon plasma flows with very little viscosity compared to weak coupling expectations, challenging theorists to explain why this fluid is so nearly ``perfect''. It is therefore vital to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Sean Gavin , Mohamed Abdel-Aziz