Shear viscosity from thermal fluctuations in relativistic conformal fluid dynamics

Details Shear viscosity from thermal fluctuations in relativistic conformal fluid dynamics Shear viscosity from thermal fluctuations in relativistic conformal fluid dynamics

2011-09-18

arxiv.org/abs/1109.3833v3

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

v3: 28 pages, 4 figures. Significant changes but main conclusion remains the same. Accepted for publication in JHEP

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Within the framework of relativistic fluctuating hydrodynamics we compute the contribution of thermal fluctuations to the effective infrared shear viscosity of a conformal fluid, focusing on quadratic (in fluctuations), second order (in velocity gradients) terms in the conservation equations. Our approach is based on the separation of hydrodynamic fields in soft and ultrasoft sectors, in which the effective shear viscosity arises due to the action of the soft modes on the evolution of the ultrasoft ones. We find that for a strongly coupled fluid with small shear viscosity--to--entropy ratio $\eta/s$ the contribution of thermal fluctuations to the effective shear viscosity is small but significant. Using realistic estimates for the strongly coupled quark--gluon plasma created in heavy ion collisions, we find that for $\eta/s$ close to the AdS/CFT lower bound $1/(4\pi)$ the correction is positive and at most amounts to 10% in the temperature range 200--300 MeV, whereas for larger values $\eta/s \sim 2/(4\pi)$ the correction is negligible. For weakly coupled theories the correction is very small even for $\eta/s=0.08$ and can be neglected.

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