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Viscosity in Strongly Interacting Quantum Field Theories from Black Hole Physics
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The ratio of shear viscosity to volume density of entropy can be used to characterize how close a given fluid is to being perfect. Using string theory methods, we show that this ratio is equal to a universal value of variant Planck's over 2pi/4pik(B) for a large class of strongly interacting quantum field theories whose dual description involves black holes in anti-de Sitter space. We provide evidence that this value may serve as a lower bound for a wide class of systems, thus suggesting that black hole horizons are dual to the most ideal fluids.
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- Kovtun, P. K., Son, D. T., & Starinets, A. O.
- Venue
- Physical Review Letters
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 2005-03-22
- Volume
- 94
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 111601-111601
- ISSN
- 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
- 1079-7114
- OpenAlex
- W2097909025
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- 2,836
- References
- 9
- FWCI
- 60.24
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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