Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2008-09-23
Phys.Rev.D79:025023,2009
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
15 pages; added references, minor clarifications in text
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.79.025023
We show that at the level of linear response the low frequency limit of a strongly coupled field theory at finite temperature is determined by the horizon geometry of its gravity dual, i.e. by the "membrane paradigm" fluid of classical black hole mechanics. Thus generic boundary theory transport coefficients can be expressed in terms of geometric quantities evaluated at the horizon. When applied to the stress tensor this gives a simple, general proof of the universality of the shear viscosity in terms of the universality of gravitational couplings, and when applied to a conserved current it gives a new general formula for the conductivity. Away from the low frequency limit the behavior of the boundary theory fluid is no longer fully captured by the horizon fluid even within the derivative expansion; instead we find a nontrivial evolution from the horizon to the boundary. We derive flow equations governing this evolution and apply them to the simple examples of charge and momentum diffusion.
Iqbal Nabil
Liu Hong
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