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A panoply of Schwinger-Keldysh transport
by Kristan Jensen, Raja Marjieh, Natalia Pinzani-Fokeeva, Amos Yarom
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| Authors (as registered SciPost users): | Kristan Jensen · Amos Yarom |
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| Preprint Link: | https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.04654v3 (pdf) |
| Date accepted: | 2018-11-22 |
| Date submitted: | 2018-11-08 01:00 |
| Submitted by: | Jensen, Kristan |
| Submitted to: | SciPost Physics |
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| Academic field: | Physics |
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| Approach: | Theoretical |
Abstract
We classify all possible allowed constitutive relations of relativistic fluids in a statistical mechanical limit using the Schwinger-Keldysh effective action for hydrodynamics. We find that microscopic unitarity enforces genuinely new constraints on the allowed transport coefficients that are invisible in the classical hydrodynamic description; they are not implied by the second law or the Onsager relations. We term these conditions Schwinger-Keldysh positivity and provide explicit examples of the various allowed terms.
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List of changes
- We fixed the typos noted by Referee 2.
- We added a brief comment to the end of the Introduction referring the curious reader immediately to our summary and table in Section 8.1.
- We fixed the (incorrect as written) second sentence in Section 6.2.4.
Published as SciPost Phys. 5, 053 (2018)