Published May 31, 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

Holographic chiral shear waves from anomaly

  • 1. ICTP, High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Strada Costiera 11, 34014, Trieste (Italy)

Description

We study dispersion relations of hydrodynamic waves of hot N=4 SYM plasma at strong coupling with a finite U(1) R-charge chemical potential via holography. We first provide complete equations of motion of linearized fluctuations out of a charged AdS black-hole background according to their helicity, and observe that helicity ±1 transverse shear modes receive a new parity-odd contribution from the 5D Chern-Simons term, which is dual to 4D U(1)3 anomaly. We present a systematic solution of the helicity ±1 wave equations in long wave-length expansion, and obtain the corresponding dispersion relations. The results depend on the sign of helicity, which may be called chiral shear waves.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2010.04.076

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DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2010.04.076;
arXiv
arXiv:0910.5915v1;
PII
S0370-2693(10)00572-1;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
689
Journal Issue
4-5
Journal Page Range
p. 206-212
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

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