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Adiabatic hydrodynamics: the eightfold way to dissipation

Haehl, Felix M.; Loganayagam, Ramalingam; Rangamani, Mukund

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Felix M. Haehl

Ramalingam Loganayagam

Mukund Rangamani



Abstract

Hydrodynamics is the low-energy effective field theory of any interacting quantum theory, capturing the long-wavelength fluctuations of an equilibrium Gibbs densitymatrix. Conventionally, one views the effective dynamics in terms of the conserved currents, which should be expressed via the constitutive relations in terms of the fluid velocity and the intensive parameters such as the temperature, chemical potential, etc. . . However, not all constitutive relations are acceptable; one has to ensure that the second law of thermodynamics is satisfied on all physical configurations. In this paper, we provide a complete solution to hydrodynamic transport at all orders in the gradient expansion compatible with the second law constraint. The key new ingredient we introduce is the notion of adiabaticity, which allows us to take hydrodynamics off-shell. Adiabatic fluids are such that off-shell dynamics of the fluid compensates for entropy production. The space of adiabatic fluids is quite rich, and admits a decomposition into seven distinct classes. Together with the dissipative class this establishes the eightfold way of hydrodynamic transport. Furthermore, recent results guarantee that dissipative terms beyond leading order in the gradient expansion are agnostic of the second law. While this completes a transport taxonomy, we go on to argue for a new symmetry principle, an Abelian gauge invariance that guarantees adiabaticity in hydrodynamics. We suggest that this symmetry is the macroscopic manifestation of the microscopic KMS invariance. We demonstrate its utility by explicitly constructing effective actions for adiabatic transport. The theory of adiabatic fluids, we speculate, provides a useful starting point for a new framework to describe non-equilibrium dynamics, wherein dissipative effects arise by Higgsing the Abelian symmetry.

Citation

Haehl, F. M., Loganayagam, R., & Rangamani, M. (2015). Adiabatic hydrodynamics: the eightfold way to dissipation. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2015(5), Article 60. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep05%282015%29060

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Apr 2, 2015
Online Publication Date May 12, 2015
Publication Date May 12, 2015
Deposit Date Apr 6, 2015
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Journal of High Energy Physics
Print ISSN 1126-6708
Publisher Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA)
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 2015
Issue 5
Article Number 60
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep05%282015%29060
Keywords Holography and quark-gluon plasmas, Effective field theories, Anomalies in Field and String Theories, Quantum Dissipative Systems.
Related Public URLs http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.00636

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Open Access, © The Authors. Article funded by SCOAP3. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits any use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.




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