Universal relations of transport coefficients from holography

Aleksey Cherman, Abhinav Nellore

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Abstract

We show that there are universal high-temperature relations for transport coefficients of plasmas described by a wide class of field theories with gravity duals. These theories can be viewed as strongly coupled large-Nc conformal field theories deformed by one or more relevant operators. The transport coefficients we study are the speed of sound and bulk viscosity, as well as the conductivity, diffusion coefficient, and charge susceptibility of probe U(1) charges. We show that the sound bound vs2≤1/3 is satisfied at high temperatures in these theories and also discuss bounds on the diffusion coefficient, the conductivity, and the bulk viscosity.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number066006
JournalPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume80
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 10 2009
Externally publishedYes

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