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Towards Hydrodynamics without an Entropy Current

Kristan Jensen, Matthias Kaminski, Pavel Kovtun, René Meyer, Adam Ritz, and Amos Yarom
Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 101601 – Published 5 September 2012

Abstract

We present a generating functional which describes the equilibrium thermodynamic response of a relativistic system to external sources. A variational principle gives rise to constraints on the response parameters of relativistic hydrodynamics without making use of an entropy current. Our method reproduces and extends results available in the literature. It also provides a technique for efficiently computing n-point zero-frequency correlation functions within the hydrodynamic derivative expansion without the need to explicitly solve the equations of hydrodynamics.

  • Received 26 April 2012

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.101601

© 2012 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Kristan Jensen1, Matthias Kaminski2, Pavel Kovtun1, René Meyer3, Adam Ritz1, and Amos Yarom4

  • 1Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia V8W 3P6, Canada
  • 2Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
  • 3Crete Center for Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics, University of Crete, 71003 Heraklion, Greece
  • 4Department of Physics, Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel

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Vol. 109, Iss. 10 — 7 September 2012

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