Wednesday, October 31, 2012

1210.7990 (Waseem Bashir et al.)

Transport Coefficients in Quasi-particle Models    [PDF]

Waseem Bashir, Saeed Uddin, Jan Shabir Ahmad
We study the non-equilibrium properties of a dynamical fluid composed of quasi-particles whose mass is temperature and charge chemical potential dependent, in kinetic theory under the relaxation time approximation. In particular we calculate the scaling behaviour of bulk viscosity `$\zeta$' near the QCD chiral phase transition in the 3d $\it O$(2) universality class. It is found that the bulk viscosity `$\zeta$' does not show a divergent behaviour near the QCD chiral phase transition. This scaling behaviour of `$\zeta$' prevails in the presence of Gold-stone modes that arise due to the explicit breaking of continuous $\it O$(4) symmetry. On contrary these modes have a significant effect on the scaling behaviour of specific heat $C_V$ which diverges at the critical temperature $T_C$.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.7990

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