Strongly correlated quantum fluids: ultracold quantum gases, quantum chromodynamic plasmas and holographic duality
By A. Adams, Lincoln D. Carr, T. Schaefer, P. Steinberg, John E. Thomas. 2012
218 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Strongly correlated quantum fluids are phases of matter that are intrinsically quantum mechanical and that do not have a simple description in terms of weakly interacting quasiparticles. Two systems that have recently attracted a great deal of interest are the quark–gluon plasma, a plasma of strongly interacting quarks and gluons produced in relativistic heavy ion collisions, and ultracold atomic Fermi gases, very dilute clouds of atomic gases confined in optical or magnetic traps. These systems differ by 19 orders of magnitude in temperature, but were shown to exhibit very similar hydrodynamic flows. In particular, both fluids exhibit a robustly low shear viscosity to entropy density ratio, which is characteristic of quantum fluids described by holographic duality, a mapping from strongly correlated quantum field theories to weakly curved higher dimensional classical gravity. This review explores the connection between these fields, and also serves as an introduction to the focus issue of New Journal of Physics on ‘Strongly Correlated Quantum Fluids: From Ultracold Quantum Gases to Quantum Chromodynamic Plasmas’. The presentation is accessible to the general physics reader and includes discussions of the latest research developments in all three areas.
Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/a383c95cdd0567f098e9d010fc89bc370797287c
How researchers see this paper
The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.
In Astronomy and Astrophysics
In Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Citations in the corpus
- Introduction to holographic superconductor models (2015, unknown): “[54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59] for more details.”
- Lifshitz holography (2015, background): “The reviews [166, 167] include various applications of non-relativistic holography to condensed matter physics.”
- Theory of universal incoherent metallic transport (2014, background): “ments and developments of the conjecture. A bound on the rate of momentum diusion is supported by experiments on the strongly correlated quarkgluon plasma and on the Fermi gas at unitarity, see e.g. [13]. In this letter we propose a universal bound on the diusivity of charge and energy in an incoher”
- Heavy ions and string theory (2013, background): “Other reviews of the interplay between heavy ion collisions and the AdS/CFT correspondence exist, notably [48] and [49].”