Published September 1, 2020 | Version v1
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Fluctuation dynamics in a relativistic fluid with a critical point

  • 1. University of Illinois at Chicago
  • 2. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • 3. University of Chicago

Description

To describe dynamics of bulk and fluctuations near the QCD critical point we develop general relativistic fluctuation formalism for a fluid carrying baryon charge. Feedback of fluctuations modifies hydrodynamic coefficients including bulk viscosity and conductivity and introduces nonlocal and non-instantaneous terms in constitutive equations. We perform necessary ultraviolet (short-distance) renormalization to obtain cutoff independent deterministic equations suitable for numerical implementation. We use the equations to calculate the universal non-analytic small-frequency dependence of transport coefficients due to fluctuations (long-time tails). Focusing on the critical mode we show how this general formalism matches existing Hydro+ description of fluctuations near the QCD critical point and nontrivially extends it inside and outside of the critical region.

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DOI
10.1103/physrevc.102.034901
Other
oai:uchicago.tind.io:11744

Funding

U.S. Department of Energy
DE-FG02-01ER41195

UChicago Information

Division(s)
Physical Sciences Division
Department(s)
Kadanoff Center for Theoretical Physics