Transport coefficients in high temperature gauge theories (I): leading-log results

By P. Arnold, Guy D. Moore, Laurence G. Yaffe. 2000

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Leading-log results are derived for the shear viscosity, electrical conductivity and flavor diffusion constants in both abelian and non-abelian high temperature gauge theories with various matter field content.

Subfields: Condensed Matter Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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The stochastic gravitational wave background from turbulence and magnetic fields generated by a first-order phase transition (2009, background): “The shear viscosity is dominated by right handed lepton transport and given by [72]”
Boost invariant flow, black hole formation, and far-from-equilibrium dynamics in N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory (2009, background): “Much has been learned about near-equilibrium dynamics at weak coupling where a quasiparticle picture is valid [1, 2, 3, 4, 5], and there has also been considerable progress understanding certain theories at very strong coupling [6, 7, 8, 9], thanks to the development of gauge/gravity duality [10, 11”
Cosmological Magnetic Fields: Their Generation, Evolution and Observation (2013, background): “In the early Universe, conductivity is very high, for relativistic electrons we typically have, see Enqvist et al (1995); Arnold et al (2000); Arnold et al (2003) and Appendix A. σ ≃ T α log(α−1) .”
Adiabatic hydrodynamics: the eightfold way to dissipation (2015, background): “A paradigmatic example in this regard is the computation of viscosities and conductivities for weakly coupled theories [91, 92].”
Gravity and hydrodynamics: lectures on the fluid-gravity correspondence (2009, background): “This is per se not a trivial exercise, for a discussion of the computation of transport coefficients in perturbative gauge theory see [89, 90].”
Holographic Quantum Matter (2016, neutral): “Hence, recovery of hydrodynamics from quasiparticle approaches such as kinetic theory requires some conceptual ‘care’, although it is well-known how to do so [51; 52].”
Coupling constant dependence of the shear viscosity in N=4 supersymmetric Yang–Mills theory (2004, methodology): “For finite-temperature quantum field theories, and thermal gauge theories in particular, computations based on the Boltzmann equation in the regime of weak coupling g ≪ 1 show [2, 3, 4, 5] that the shear viscosity behaves as η ∼ C N 2 c T 3 g4 log 1/g2 , (1.”