Relativistic dissipation: from hydrodynamics to effective field theory
Relativistic dissipation: from hydrodynamics to effective field theory
- Event time: 10:00am until 11:00am
- Event date: 8th December 2022
- Speaker: Pavel Kovtun (University of Victoria)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room, Room 4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) (James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB)) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
What is the effective description of macroscopic states in a relativistic theory? Going one step beyond thermodynamics, the simplest classical effective description is given by hydrodynamics. It is well known that relativistic dissipative fluid-dynamical equations found in classic textbooks (Weinberg, Landau & Lifshitz) predict violations of causality and non-existence of equilibrium. In this talk, I will discuss how one can make sense of dissipative relativistic hydrodynamics. Time permitting, I will also discuss why some of the long-distance, late-time predictions of classical hydrodynamics are not universal.
Hybrid colloquium - speaker from Higgs Centre seminar room.
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