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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

We evaluate the viscous damping of anisotropic flow in heavy-ion collisions for arbitrary temperature-dependent shear and bulk viscosities. We show that the damping is solely determined by effective shear and bulk viscosities, which are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-04-29 Fernando G. Gardim , Jean-Yves Ollitrault

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

We investigate the shear viscosity of neutron star matter in the presence of an antikaon condensate. The electron and muon number densities are reduced due to the appearance of a $K^-$ condensate in neutron star matter, whereas the proton…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-23 Rana Nandi , Sarmistha Banik , Debades Bandyopadhyay

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

Substantial collective flow is observed in collisions between large nuclei at high energy, and the data are well-reproduced by perfect fluid dynamics. In a separate development, calculation of the dimensionless ratio of shear viscosity…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-08-01 Joseph I. Kapusta

We compute the bulk, $\zeta$, and shear, $\eta$, viscosity over entropy density, $s$, for the QCD matter formed in small collision systems at LHC. We consider a scenario of the String Percolation Model by proposing a global form of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-06 J. R. Alvarado García , I. Bautista , A. Fernández Téllez , P. Fierro

The shear $\eta$ and bulk $\zeta$ viscous coefficients have been calculated in a hot and chirally asymmetric quark matter quantified in terms of a chiral chemical potential (CCP) using the two-flavor Nambu-Jona--Lasinio (NJL) model. This is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-16 Snigdha Ghosh , Nilanjan Chaudhuri , Pradip Roy , Sourav Sarkar

Shear viscosity is a dynamical property of fluid systems close to equilibrium, describing resistance to sheared flow. After reviewing the physics of viscosity and the reason it is usually difficult to compute, I discuss its importance…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-30 Guy D. Moore

The $\eta$-nucleon ($\eta$N) interactions are deduced from the heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory up to the next-to-leading-order terms. Combining the relativistic mean-field theory for nucleon system, we have studied the in-medium…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 X. H. Zhong , G. X. Peng , Lei Li , P. Z. Ning

We measure the shear viscosity in a two-component Fermi gas of atoms, tuned to a broad s-wave collisional (Feshbach) resonance. At resonance, the atoms strongly interact and exhibit universal behavior, where the equilibrium thermodynamic…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-01-18 C. Cao , E. Elliott , H. Wu , J. E. Thomas

Shear viscosity of the gluon plasma in SU(3) YM theory is calculated nonperturbatively, within the stochastic vacuum model. The result for the ratio of the shear viscosity to the entropy density, proportional to the squared chromo-magnetic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-05-21 Dmitri Antonov

We study the shear and bulk viscosities of partonic and hadronic matter as functions of temperature T within the parton-hadron-string dynamics (PHSD) off-shell transport approach. Dynamical hadronic and partonic systems in equilibrium are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 V. Ozvenchuk , O. Linnyk , M. I. Gorenstein , E. L. Bratkovskaya , W. Cassing

The shear ($\eta$) and bulk ($\zeta$) viscosities are calculated in a quasiparticle relaxation time approximation for a hadron matter described within the relativistic mean-field based model with scaled hadron masses and couplings.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-05-05 A. S. Khvorostukhin , V. D. Toneev , D. N. Voskresensky

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

The shear viscosity of a two-dimensional (2D) liquid was calculated using equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations with a Yukawa potential. The shear viscosity has a minimum, at a Coulomb coupling parameter of about 17, arising from the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-07-19 Bin Liu , J. Goree

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 calculate the shear (eta) and bulk (zeta) viscosities of a weakly coupled quark gluon plasma at the leading-log order with finite temperature T and quark chemical potential mu. We find that the shear viscosity to entropy density ratio…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Jiunn-Wei Chen , Yen-Fu Liu , Yu-Kun Song , Qun Wang

We estimate dissipative properties viz: shear and bulk viscosities of hadronic matter using relativistic Boltzmann equation in relaxation time approximation within ambit of excluded volume hadron resonance gas (EHRG) model. We find that at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-14 Guru Prakash Kadam , Hiranmaya Mishra

We investigate the temperature dependence of the shear viscosity and spin diffusion in a two-dimensional Fermi gas with contact interactions, as realized in ultra-cold atomic gases. We describe the transport coefficients in terms of a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-07-16 Tilman Enss , Carolin Küppersbusch , Lars Fritz