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Superfluidity in Super-Yang-Mills Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-12-18 v1

Abstract

The AdS/CFT correspondence suggests that there is a point in the phase diagram of strongly interacting gauge-theory matter where the viscosity approaches zero. This paper analyses the possibility that this point represents a superfluid and that the the system near this point in the phase diagram can be described by a Landau fluid. Superfluid vortices are constructed and the AdS analogue of vorticity quantisation is described. The production of vortices in the quark-gluon plasma during heavy ion collisions is discussed.

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@article{arxiv.0712.2568,
  title  = {Superfluidity in Super-Yang-Mills Theory},
  author = {Ian G. Moss},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0712.2568},
  year   = {2007}
}

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6 pages, 5 figures

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