Universality of the shear viscosity from supergravity duals

被引:414
作者
Buchel, A [1 ]
Liu, JT
机构
[1] Perimeter Inst Theoret Phys, Waterloo, ON N2J 2W9, Canada
[2] Univ Western Ontario, Dept Appl Math, London, ON N6A 5B7, Canada
[3] Univ Michigan, Randall Lab Phys, Michigan Ctr Theoret Phys, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会; 加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会;
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D O I
10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.090602
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
Kovtun, Son, and Starinets proposed a bound on the shear viscosity of any fluid in terms of its entropy density. We argue that this bound is always saturated for gauge theories at large 't Hooft coupling, which admit holographically dual supergravity description.
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页码:090602 / 1
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