Title: | Holography and hydrodynamics with weakly broken symmetries |
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Date: | 2019-04-15 |
Language: | English |
Scope: | 086012 |
University/Institute: | Háskóli Íslands University of Iceland |
School: | Verkfræði- og náttúruvísindasvið (HÍ) School of Engineering and Natural Sciences (UI) |
Department: | Science Institute (UI) Raunvísindastofnun (HÍ) |
Series: | Physical Review D;99(8) |
ISSN: | 2470-0010 2470-0029 (eISSN) |
DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevD.99.086012 |
Subject: | Gauge-gravity dualities; Quantum fluids & solids; Strongly correlated systems; Skammtafræði; Þéttefnisfræði; Straumfræði |
URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/1771 |
Citation:Grozdanov, S., Lucas, A., & Poovuttikul, N. (2019). Holography and hydrodynamics with weakly broken symmetries. ArXiv.org, 99(8), ArXiv.org, Apr 16, 2019.
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Abstract:Hydrodynamics is a theory of long-range excitations controlled by equations of motion that encode the conservation of a set of currents (energy, momentum, charge, etc.) associated with explicitly realized global symmetries. If a system possesses additional weakly broken symmetries, the low-energy hydrodynamic degrees of freedom also couple to a few other "approximately conserved" quantities with parametrically long relaxation times. It is often useful to consider such approximately conserved operators and corresponding new massive modes within the low-energy effective theory, which we refer to as quasihydrodynamics. Examples of quasihydrodynamics are numerous, with the most transparent among them hydrodynamics with weakly broken translational symmetry. Here, we show how a number of other theories, normally not thought of in this context, can also be understood within a broader framework of quasihydrodynamics: in particular, the Müller-Israel-Stewart theory and magnetohydrodynamics coupled to dynamical electric fields. While historical formulations of quasihydrodynamic theories were typically highly phenomenological, here, we develop a holographic formalism to systematically derive such theories from a (microscopic) dual gravitational description. Beyond laying out a general holographic algorithm, we show how the Müller-Israel-Stewart theory can be understood from a dual higher-derivative gravity theory and magnetohydrodynamics from a dual theory with two-form bulk fields. In the latter example, this allows us to unambiguously demonstrate the existence of dynamical photons in the holographic description of magnetohydrodynamics.
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