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Universality of the shear viscosity from supergravity duals.
- Source :
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Physical review letters [Phys Rev Lett] 2004 Aug 27; Vol. 93 (9), pp. 090602. Date of Electronic Publication: 2004 Aug 26. - Publication Year :
- 2004
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Abstract
- 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.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0031-9007
- Volume :
- 93
- Issue :
- 9
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Physical review letters
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 15447089
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.090602