Viscosity in Strongly Interacting Quantum Field Theories from Black Hole Physics
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Abstract
The ratio of shear viscosity to volume density of entropy can be used to characterize how close a given fluid is to being perfect. Using string theory methods, we show that this ratio is equal to a universal value of variant Planck's over 2pi/4pik(B) for a large class of strongly interacting quantum field theories whose dual description involves black holes in anti-de Sitter space. We provide evidence that this value may serve as a lower bound for a wide class of systems, thus suggesting that black hole horizons are dual to the most ideal fluids.
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- Venue
- Physical Review Letters
- Topic
- Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
- Field
- Physics and Astronomy
- Canadian institutions
- Perimeter Institute
- Funders
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- Keywords
- PhysicsString theoryQuantum mechanicsBlack hole (networking)Theoretical physicsEntropy (arrow of time)Planck massClassical mechanicsGravitation
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