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We investigate the effects of stochastic interactions on hydrodynamic correlation functions using the Schwinger-Keldysh effective field theory. We identify new "stochastic transport coefficients" that are invisible in the classical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-21 Akash Jain , Pavel Kovtun

We present a detailed and self-contained analysis of the universal Schwinger-Keldysh effective field theory which describes macroscopic thermal fluctuations of a relativistic field theory, elaborating on our earlier construction in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-01 Felix M. Haehl , R. Loganayagam , Mukund Rangamani

We construct effective field theory for SU(2) isospin charge diffusion, based on holographic Schwinger-Keldysh contour arXiv:2008.01269. The holographic model consists of a probe SU(2) gauge field in a doubled Schwarzschild-AdS$_5$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-14 Yanyan Bu , Xiyang Sun , Biye Zhang

Employing the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism, we formulate an effective field theory for s-wave superconducting phase transition, where the dynamical variables consist of electromagnetic gauge field and complex scalar order parameter.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-11 Yanyan Bu , Zexin Yang

We provide a complete derivation of hydrodynamic equations for nonrelativistic systems based on quantum field theories of spinless Schr\"odeinger fields, assuming that an initial density operator takes a special form of the local Gibbs…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-07 Masaru Hongo

We outline a universal Schwinger-Keldysh effective theory which describes macroscopic thermal fluctuations of a relativistic field theory. The basic ingredients of our construction are three: a doubling of degrees of freedom, an emergent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-01 Felix M. Haehl , R. Loganayagam , Mukund Rangamani

With the goal of deriving dissipative hydrodynamics from an action, we study classical actions for open systems, which follow from the generic structure of effective actions in the Schwinger-Keldysh Closed-Time-Path formalism with two time…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Sašo Grozdanov , Janos Polonyi

We develop a Schwinger--Keldysh effective theory for quantum-interference corrections in a two-dimensional electron system in the hydrodynamic regime. Starting from the clean hydrodynamic fixed point, we introduce a minimal random-friction…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-27 Alberto Cortijo

In the framework of chiral kinetic theory (CKT), we consider a system of right- and left-handed Weyl fermions out of thermal equilibrium in a homogeneous weak magnetic field. We show that the Lorentz invariance implies a modification in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-20 Navid Abbasi , Kiarash Naderi , Farid Taghinavaz

We present the hydrodynamics of fluids in three spatial dimensions with helical symmetry, wherein only a linear combination of a rotation and translation is conserved in one of the three directions. The hydrodynamic degrees of freedom…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-29 Jack H. Farrell , Xiaoyang Huang , Andrew Lucas

We develop a systematic effective field theory of hydrodynamics for many-body systems on the lattice with global continuous non-Abelian symmetries. Models with continuous non-Abelian symmetries are ubiquitous in physics, arising in diverse…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-27 Paolo Glorioso , Luca V. Delacrétaz , Xiao Chen , Rahul M. Nandkishore , Andrew Lucas

We present results of the application of the anisotropic hydrodynamics (aHydro) framework to (2+1)-dimensional boost invariant systems. The necessary aHydro dynamical equations are derived by taking moments of the Boltzmann equation using a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-06-20 Mauricio Martinez , Radoslaw Ryblewski , Michael Strickland

Magnetohydrodynamics is a theory of long-lived, gapless excitations in plasmas. It was argued from the point of view of fluid with higher-form symmetry that magnetohydrodynamics remains a consistent, non-dissipative theory even in the limit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-14 Bartosz Benenowski , Napat Poovuttikul

We study Schwinger-Keldysh effective field theories (EFTs) for systems with non-Abelian internal symmetries near thermal equilibrium. We consider two approaches that were put forward in the literature -- one using a redundant Goldstone…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-19 Eren Firat , Andrew Gomes , Filippo Nardi , Riccardo Penco , Riccardo Rattazzi

In this work, we introduce an effective model for both ideal and viscous fluid dynamics within the framework of kinetic field theory (KFT). The main application we have in mind is cosmic structure formation where gaseous components need to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-01 C. Viermann , J. T. Schneider , R. Lilow , F. Fabis , C. Littek , E. Kozlikin , M. Bartelmann

We introduce dissipative effects in the effective field theory of hydrodynamics. We do this in a model-independent fashion by coupling the long-distance degrees of freedom explicitly kept in the effective field theory to a generic sector…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-11-13 Solomon Endlich , Alberto Nicolis , Rafael A. Porto , Junpu Wang

We study the hydrodynamics of superconductors within the framework of Schwinger-Keldysh Effective Field Theory. We show that in the vicinity of the superconducting phase transition the most general leading-order EFT satisfying the local…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-05-02 Anton Kapustin , Luke Mrini

Recent developments in generalized symmetries have provided new insights into quantum field theories. Within this framework, photons can be understood as Nambu-Goldstone modes associated with a spontaneously broken higher-form symmetry. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-05 Genki Yoshimura , Yukinao Akamatsu , Yuji Hirono

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

We study the process of hydrodynamization in kinetic theories of gluons undergoing boost-invariant expansion using the Adiabatic Hydrodynamization (AH) framework. We study both number-conserving and non-conserving theories, and find that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-30 Krishna Rajagopal , Bruno Scheihing-Hitschfeld , Rachel Steinhorst