# Quark Matter 2012

12-18 August 2012
US/Eastern timezone

## A Non-AdS/CFT bound on eta/s

16 Aug 2012, 14:20
20m
Empire ()

### Empire

Oral Presentation

### Speaker

Paul Romatschke (FIAS Frankfurt)

### Description

Hydrodynamics predicts long-lived sound and shear waves. Thermal fluctuations in these waves can lead to the diffusion of momentum density, contributing to the shear viscosity and other transport coefficients. Within viscous hydrodynamics in 3+1 dimensions, this leads to a positive contribution to the shear viscosity, which is finite but inversely proportional to the microscopic shear viscosity. Therefore the effective infrared viscosity is bounded from below. The contribution to the second-order transport coefficient $\tau_\pi$ is divergent, which means that second-order relativistic viscous hydrodynamics is inconsistent below some frequency scale. We estimate the importance of each effect for the Quark-Gluon Plasma, finding them to be minor if $\eta/s = 0.16$ but important if $\eta/s = 0.08$.

### Primary author

Paul Romatschke (FIAS Frankfurt)

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