Breaking rotations without violating the KSS viscosity bound

DOI10.1007/JHEP07(2023)016MaRDI QIDQ6055612zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Matteo Baggioli, Sera Cremonini, Laura Early, Li Li, Hao-Tian Sun

Publication date 29 September 2023

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01807

zbMATH Keywords

AdS-CFT correspondencegauge-gravity correspondenceholography and hydrodynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Correspondence, duality, holography (AdS/CFT, gauge/gravity, etc.) (81T35) Statistical mechanics of superfluids (82D50) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

Abstract: We revisit the computation of the shear viscosity to entropy ratio in a holographic p-wave superfluid model, focusing on the role of rotational symmetry breaking. We study the interplay between explicit and spontaneous symmetry breaking and derive a simple horizon formula for $eta/s$, which is valid also in the presence of explicit breaking of rotations and is in perfect agreement with the numerical data. We observe that a source which explicitly breaks rotational invariance suppresses the value of $eta/s$ in the broken phase, competing against the effects of spontaneous symmetry breaking. However, $eta/s$ always reaches a constant value in the limit of zero temperature, which is never smaller than the Kovtun-Son-Starinets (KSS) bound, $1/4pi$. This behavior appears to be in contrast with previous holographic anisotropic models which found a power-law vanishing of $eta/s$ at small temperature. This difference is shown to arise from the properties of the near-horizon geometry in the extremal limit. Thus, our construction shows that the breaking of rotations itself does not necessarily imply a violation of the KSS bound.

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