Published June 15, 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

Shear viscosity and Chern-Simons diffusion rate from hyperbolic horizons

  • 1. Department of Physics, National Technical University of Athens, GR 157 73 Athens (Greece)
  • 2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-1200 (United States)

Description

We calculate the shear viscosity and anomalous baryon number violation rate in quantum field theories at finite temperature having gravity duals with hyperbolic horizons. We find the explicit dependence of these quantities on the temperature. We show that the ratio of shear viscosity to entropy density is below 1/(4π) at all temperatures and can be made arbitrarily small in the low temperature limit for hyperbolic surfaces of sufficiently high genus so that the hydrodynamic limit remains valid.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2009.05.010

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2009.05.010;
arXiv
arXiv:0809.3388v2;
PII
S0370-2693(09)00562-0;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
677
Journal Issue
1-2
Journal Page Range
p. 74-78
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
41055348
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
BARYON NUMBER; ENTROPY; GAUGE INVARIANCE; GRAVITATION; NUCLEAR TEMPERATURE; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
Descriptors DEC
FIELD THEORIES; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES

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Copyright (c) 2009 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.