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Universality of the shear viscosity from supergravity duals.

Authors :
Buchel A
Liu JT
Source :
Physical review letters [Phys Rev Lett] 2004 Aug 27; Vol. 93 (9), pp. 090602. Date of Electronic Publication: 2004 Aug 26.
Publication Year :
2004

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