Transport coefficients of strongly coupled gauge theories: insights from string theory
Transport coefficients of strongly coupled gauge theories: insights from string theory
The transport properties of certain strongly coupled thermal gauge theories can be determined from their effective description in terms of gravity or superstring theory duals. Here we provide a short summary of the results for the shear and bulk viscosity, charge diffusion constant, and the speed of sound in supersymmetric strongly interacting plasmas. We also outline a general algorithm for computing transport coefficients in any gravity dual. The algorithm relates the transport coefficients to the coefficients in the quasinormal spectrum of five-dimensional black holes in asymptotically anti de Sitter space.
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Starinets, A.O.
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July 2006
Starinets, A.O.
c38a7047-d3e8-46f0-877e-a7a23534a246
Starinets, A.O.
(2006)
Transport coefficients of strongly coupled gauge theories: insights from string theory.
The European Physical Journal A, 29 (1), .
(doi:10.1140/epja/i2005-10301-2).
Abstract
The transport properties of certain strongly coupled thermal gauge theories can be determined from their effective description in terms of gravity or superstring theory duals. Here we provide a short summary of the results for the shear and bulk viscosity, charge diffusion constant, and the speed of sound in supersymmetric strongly interacting plasmas. We also outline a general algorithm for computing transport coefficients in any gravity dual. The algorithm relates the transport coefficients to the coefficients in the quasinormal spectrum of five-dimensional black holes in asymptotically anti de Sitter space.
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Published date: July 2006
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