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arxiv: 1008.4142 · v2 · pith:YK62XKV6new · submitted 2010-08-24 · ✦ hep-th

The shear viscosity of holographic superfluids

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keywords holographicshearviscositycasesuperfluidsperturbationsratiothere
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We study the ratio of the shear viscosity to the entropy density for various holographic superfluids. For the s-wave case, the ratio has the universal value 1/(4pi) as in various holographic models. For the p-wave case, there are two shear viscosity coefficients because of the anisotropic boundary spacetime, and one coefficient has the universal value. For the (p+ip)-wave case, the existing technique is not applicable since there is no tensor mode of metric perturbations which decouples from Yang-Mills perturbations. Our results indicate that the shear viscosity does not show a singular behavior at the critical point for holographic superfluids.

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