Hydrodynamics of Nuclear Matter in the Chiral Limit

D. T. Son
Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 3771 – Published 24 April 2000
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Abstract

Using the Poisson bracket method, we construct the hydrodynamics of nuclear matter in the chiral limit, which describes the dynamics of all low-energy degrees of freedom, including the fluid-dynamical and pionic ones. The hydrodynamic equations contain, beside five Euler equations of relativistic fluid dynamics, Nf21 second order equations describing propagating pions and Nf21 first order equations describing the advection of the vector isospin charges. We present hydrodynamic arguments showing that the pion velocity vanishes at the second order phase transition at Nf=2.

  • Received 16 December 1999

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.3771

©2000 American Physical Society

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D. T. Son

  • Physics Department, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027
  • and RIKEN-BNL Research Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973

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Vol. 84, Iss. 17 — 24 April 2000

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