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The Lifshitz theory of dispersion forces leads to thermodynamic and experimental inconsistencies when the role of drifting charge carriers is included in the model of the dielectric response. Recently modified reflection coefficients were…

In this paper, we investigate the behavior of the heavy quark potential in the backgrounds with hyperscaling violation. The metrics are covariant under a generalized Lifshitz scaling symmetry with the dynamical Lifshitz parameter $z$ and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-08 Zi-qiang Zhang , Chong Ma , De-fu Hou , Gang Chen

A Lifshitz scalar with the dynamical critical exponent z = 3 obtains scale-invariant, super-horizon field fluctuations without the need of an inflationary era. Since this mechanism is due to the special scaling of the Lifshitz scalar and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-01 Keisuke Izumi , Takeshi Kobayashi , Shinji Mukohyama

The shearing instability of a dilute granular mixture composed of smooth inelastic hard spheres or disks is investigated. By using the Navier-Stokes hydrodynamic equations, it is shown that the scaled transversal velocity mode exhibits a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-15 J. Javier Brey , M. J. Ruiz-Montero

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

We construct the general renormalizable actions for the scalar field and the gauge field at a Lifshitz point characterized by the dynamical critical exponent $z$. The Lorentz invariance is broken down in the UV region, but is recovered in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-01-15 Bin Chen , Qing-Guo Huang

We consider a diffusion process on an evolving surface with a piecewise Lipschitz-continuous boundary from an energetic point of view. We employ an energetic variational approach with both surface divergence and transport theorems to derive…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-10-19 Hajime Koba

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

The problems and paradoxes of the Lifshitz theory in application to real dielectric and semiconductor materials are reviewed. It is shown that the inclusion of drift current of conduction electrons into the model of dielectric response…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 G. L. Klimchitskaya

We present new results on the gravitational lensing shear and magnification power spectra obtained from numerical simulations of a flat cosmology with a cosmological constant. These results are of considerable interest since both the shear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Andrew J. Barber , A. N. Taylor

Under general assumptions on the target distribution $p^\star$, we establish a sharp Lipschitz regularity theory for flow-matching vector fields and diffusion-model scores, with optimal dependence on time and dimension. As applications, we…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Arthur Stéphanovitch

Shearing with a finite shear rate a compressed granular system results in a region of grains flowing over a compact, static assembly. Perforce this region is dilated to a degree that depends on the shear rate, the loading pressure, gravity,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-29 Prasenjit Das , H. George E. Hentschel , Itamar Procaccia

We compute the bulk viscosity in holographic models dual to theories with Lifshitz scaling and/or hyperscaling violation, using a generalization of the bulk viscosity formula derived in arXiv:1103.1657 from the null focusing equation. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Carlos Hoyos , Bom Soo Kim , Yaron Oz

Supercooled liquids exhibit complicated dynamical behaviors: At the microscopic level, the dynamics is heterogeneous spatially, known as dynamic heterogeneity. At the macroscopic level, the shear viscosity $\eta$ decreases as shear rate…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-01 Ke-Qi Zeng , Dong-Xu Yu , Zhe Wang

We analytically consider the spontaneous formation of a fermionic crystalline geometry in a gravity background with Lifshitz scaling and/or hyperscaling violation. Fermionic vortex lattice solution sourced by the lowest Laundau level has…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-24 Li-Ke Chen , Hong Guo , Fu-Wen Shu

In this paper, we will analyse a supersymmetric field theory deformed by generalized uncertainty principle and Lifshitz scaling. It will be observed that this deformed supersymmetric field theory contains non-local fractional derivative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-20 Qin Zhao , Mir Faizal , Mushtaq B. Shah , Anha Bhat , Prince A. Ganai , Zaid Zaz , Syed Masood , Jamil Raza , Raja Muhammad Irfan

Turbulent shear flows, such as those occurring in the wall region of turbulent boundary layers, manifest a substantial increase of intermittency with respect to isotropic conditions. This suggests a close link between anisotropy and…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. M. Casciola , P. Gualtieri , R. Benzi , R. Piva

Instead of Lorentz invariance, gravitational degrees of freedom may obey Lifshitz scaling at high energies, as it happens in Ho\v{r}ava's proposal for quantum gravity. We study consequences of this proposal for the spectra of primordial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-03 Shun Arai , Sergey Sibiryakov , Yuko Urakawa

We investigate the ringdown waveform and reflectivity of a Lifshitz scalar field around a fixed Schwarzschild black hole. The radial wave equation is modified due to the Lorentz breaking terms, which leads to a diversity of ringdown…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-07 Naritaka Oshita , Niayesh Afshordi , Shinji Mukohyama

We investigate the dynamics of a scalar field governed by the Lifshitz-type action which should appear naturally in Horava-Lifshitz gravity. The wave of the scalar field may propagate with any speed without an upper bound. To preserve the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-15 Takao Suyama