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Dissipative superfluid dynamics from gravity
Charged asymptotically AdS black branes in five dimensions are sometimes
unstable to the condensation of charged scalar fields. For fields of infinite
charge and squared mass -4 Herzog was able to analytically determine the phase
transition temperature and compute the endpoint of this instability in the
neighborhood of the phase transition. We generalize Herzog's construction by
perturbing away from infinite charge in an expansion in inverse charge and use
the solutions so obtained as input for the fluid gravity map. Our tube wise
construction of patched up locally hairy black brane solutions yields a one to
one map from the space of solutions of superfluid dynamics to the long
wavelength solutions of the Einstein Maxwell system. We obtain explicit
expressions for the metric, gauge field and scalar field dual to an arbitrary
superfluid flow at first order in the derivative expansion. Our construction
allows us to read off the the leading dissipative corrections to the perfect
superfluid stress tensor, current and Josephson equations. A general framework
for dissipative superfluid dynamics was worked out by Landau and Lifshitz for
zero superfluid velocity and generalized to nonzero fluid velocity by Clark and
Putterman. Our gravitational results do not fit into the 13 parameter
Clark-Putterman framework. Purely within fluid dynamics we present a consistent
new generalization of Clark and Putterman's equations to a set of superfluid
equations parameterized by 14 dissipative parameters. The results of our
gravitational calculation fit perfectly into this enlarged framework. In
particular we compute all the dissipative constants for the gravitational
superfluid.Comment: v1: 58 + 1 pages; v2: 83 + 1 page