The shear viscosity of strongly coupled N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills plasma
The shear viscosity of strongly coupled N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills plasma
We compute the shear viscosity of weakly coupled =4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. Our result for /s, the viscosity to entropy-density ratio, is many times smaller than the corresponding weak-coupling result in QCD. This suggests that /s of QCD near the transition point is several times larger than the viscosity bound, /s1/4.
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Policastro, G.
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Son, D.T.
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Starinets, A.O.
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2001
Policastro, G.
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Son, D.T.
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Starinets, A.O.
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Policastro, G., Son, D.T. and Starinets, A.O.
(2001)
The shear viscosity of strongly coupled N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills plasma.
Physical Review Letters, 87, .
(doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.172303).
Abstract
We compute the shear viscosity of weakly coupled =4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. Our result for /s, the viscosity to entropy-density ratio, is many times smaller than the corresponding weak-coupling result in QCD. This suggests that /s of QCD near the transition point is several times larger than the viscosity bound, /s1/4.
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