Critical phenomena in N=4 SYM plasma

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2010.07.017zbMATH Open1207.81067arXiv1005.0819OpenAlexW2102024141MaRDI QIDQ631966FDOQ631966

Authors: Alex Buchel 

Publication date: 14 March 2011

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Strongly coupled N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills plasma at finite temperature and chemical potential for an R-symmetry charge undergoes a second order phase transition. We demonstrate that this phase transition is of the mean field theory type. We explicitly show that the model is in the dynamical universality class of 'model B' according to the classification of Hohenberg and Halperine, with dynamical critical exponent z=4. We study bulk viscosity in the mass deformed version of this theory in the vicinity of the phase transition. We point out that all available models of bulk viscosity at continuous phase transition are in conflict with our explicit holographic computations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.0819

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zbMATH Keywords

bulk viscositychemical potentialfinite temperatureR-symmetry chargesecond order phase transition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Thermal quantum field theory (81T28) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Critical phenomena in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B27) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30)

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