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We determine the shear viscosity of the ultracold Fermi gas at unitarity in the normal phase using hydrodynamic expansion data. The analysis is based on a generalized fluid dynamic framework which ensures a smooth transition between the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-08-16 Marcus Bluhm , Jiaxun Hou , Thomas Schaefer

The determination of the shear viscosity is a central topic in various areas of modern physics. In particular, it is often necessary to evaluate the shear viscosity $\eta$ of fluids made up of more than one species, all interacting with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-15 Gabriele Parisi , Vincenzo Nugara , Salvatore Plumari , Vincenzo Greco

The shear viscosity is an important characterization of how a many-body system behaves like a fluid. We study the shear viscosity in a strongly interacting solvable model, consisting of coupled Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) islands. As…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-01 Xian-Hui Ge , Shao-Kai Jian , Yi-Li Wang , Zhuo-Yu Xian , Hong Yao

The ratio of shear viscosity to volume density of entropy can be used to characterize how close a given fluid is to being perfect. Using string theory methods, we show that this ratio is equal to a universal value of $\hbar/4\pi k_B$ for a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Kovtun , D. T. Son , A. O. Starinets

The ratio between the shear viscosity and the entropy $\eta/s$ is considered a universal measure of the strength of interactions in quantum systems. This quantity was conjectured to have a universal lower bound $(1/4\pi)\hbar/k_{B}$, which…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-07 Sang Wook Kim , Geo Jose , Bruno Uchoa

Shear viscosity $\eta$ is calculated for the nuclear matter described as a system of interacting nucleons with the van der Waals (VDW) equation of state. The Boltzmann-Vlasov kinetic equation is solved in terms of the plane waves of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-11-30 A. G. Magner , M. I. Gorenstein , U. V. Grygoriev , V. A. Plujko

We calculate the ratio eta/s, the shear viscosity (eta) to entropy density (s), which characterizes how perfect a fluid is, in weakly coupled real scalar field theories with different types of phase transitions. The mean-field results of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-01 Jiunn-Wei Chen , Mei Huang , Yen-Han Li , Eiji Nakano , Di-Lun Yang

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

We calculate the shear viscosity $\eta$ of a quark plasma through the two-flavor Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model in the chiral limit, at finite temperature $T$, and baryon number chemical potential $\mu_B$. We solve the Boltzmann equation by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 Çağlar Doğan

The thermodynamic and transport properties of the unitary Fermi gas at finite temperature T are governed by a quantum critical point at T=0 and zero density. We compute the universal shear viscosity to entropy ratio \eta/s in the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-07-16 Tilman Enss

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…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-02-01 P. Chakraborty , J. I. Kapusta

In this perspective review, we present a concise yet multifaceted overview of the pivotal role played by the the shear viscosity to entropy density ratio across various physical contexts. After summarizing some of the main aspects of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-09 Marilù Chiofalo , Dario Grasso , Stefano Liberati , Massimo Mannarelli

For gauge theories with an Einstein gravity dual, the AdS/CFT correspondence predicts a universal value for the ratio of the shear viscosity to the entropy density, $\eta/s=1/4\pi$. The holographic calculations have motivated the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-21 Shahar Hod

The transport coefficients of strongly interacting matter are currently subject of intense theoretical and phenomenological studies due to their relevance for the characterization of the quark-gluon plasma produced in ultra relativistic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-05 A. Puglisi , S. Plumari , V. Greco

We review the modern view of fluid dynamics as an effective low energy, long wavelength theory of many body systems at finite temperature. We introduce the concept of a nearly perfect fluid, defined by a ratio $\eta/s$ of shear viscosity to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 Thomas Schaefer

We calculate the shear viscosity and anomalous baryon number violation rate in quantum field theories at finite temperature having gravity duals with hyperbolic horizons. We find the explicit dependence of these quantities on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 George Koutsoumbas , Eleftherios Papantonopoulos , George Siopsis

Using $\varepsilon$-expansion technique we compute $\eta/s$, where $\eta$ is the shear viscosity, $s$ is the entropy density, of the normal phase of unitary Fermi gas in $d=4-\varepsilon$ dimensions to LO in $\varepsilon$. We use kinetic…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-06-04 Andrei Kryjevski

We investigate the shear viscosity $\eta$ and the entropy density $s$ of strongly coupled $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills (SYM) plasma in late time of hydrodynamic evolution with AdS/CFT duality and Bjorken scaling. We use correlation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-07 Shi Pu , Qun Wang

We present an ab initio determination of the shear viscosity for the unitary Fermi gas based on finite temperature quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) calculations and the Kubo linear-response formalism. The results are confronted with the bound for…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-08-02 Gabriel Wlazłowski , Piotr Magierski , Aurel Bulgac , Kenneth J. Roche

The ratio of the shear viscosity ($\eta$) to entropy density ($s$) for the intermediate energy heavy-ion collisions has been calculated by using the Green-Kubo method in the framework of the quantum molecular dynamics model. The theoretical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-06-29 C. L. Zhou , Y. G. Ma , D. Q. Fang , S. X. Li , G. Q. Zhang