Parity-violating hydrodynamics in 2+1 dimensions

Kristan Jensen, Matthias Kaminski, Pavel Kovtun, René Meyer, Adam Ritz, Amos Yarom

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Abstract

We study relativistic hydrodynamics of normal fluids in two spatial dimensions. When the microscopic theory breaks parity, extra transport coefficients appear in the hydrodynamic regime, including the Hall viscosity, and the anomalous Hall conductivity. In this work we classify all the transport coefficients in first order hydrodynamics. We then use properties of response functions and the positivity of entropy production to restrict the possible coefficients in the constitutive relations. All the parity-breaking transport coefficients are dissipationless, and some of them are related to the thermodynamic response to an external magnetic field and to vorticity. In addition, we give a holographic example of a strongly interacting relativistic fluid where the parity-violating transport coefficients are computable.

Original languageEnglish
Article number102
JournalJournal of High Energy Physics
Volume2012
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - 8 Jun 2012
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Discrete and Finite Symmetries
  • Gauge-gravity correspondence
  • Holography and condensed matter physics (AdS/CMT)
  • Holography and quark-gluon plasmas

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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