Published May 1, 2011 | Version v1
Journal article

Dynamics near QCD critical point by dynamic renormalization group

Creators

  • 1. Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502 (Japan)

Description

We work out the basic analysis on dynamics near the QCD critical point (CP) by the dynamic renormalization group (RG). In addition to the RG analysis by coarse-graining, we construct the nonlinear Langevin equation as a basic equation for the critical dynamics. Our construction is based on the generalized Langevin theory and the relativistic hydrodynamics. Applying the dynamic RG to the constructed equation, we derive the RG equation for the transport coefficients and analyze their critical behaviors. We find that the resulting RG equation turns out to be the same as that for the liquid-gas CP except for an insignificant constant. Therefore, the bulk viscosity and the thermal conductivity strongly diverge at the QCD CP. We also show that the thermal and viscous diffusion modes exhibit critical slowing down with the dynamic critical exponents zthermal∼3 and zviscous∼2, respectively. In contrast, the sound propagating mode shows critical speeding up with the negative exponent zsound∼-0.8.

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
83
Journal Issue
9
Journal Page Range
p. 094019-094019.17
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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(c) 2011 American Institute of Physics