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Thermodynamics of Plasmaballs and Plasmarings in 3+1 Dimensions
We study localized plasma configurations in 3+1 dimensional massive field
theories obtained by Scherk-Schwarz compactification of 4+1 dimensional CFT to
predict the thermodynamic properties of localized blackholes and blackrings in
Scherk-Schwarz compactified using the AdS/CFT correspondence. We
present an exact solution to the relativistic Navier-Stokes equation in the
thin ring limit of the fluid configuration. We also perform a thorough
numerical analysis to obtain the thermodynamic properties of the most general
solution. Finally we compare our results with the recent proposal for the phase
diagram of blackholes in six flat dimensions and find some similarities but
other differences.Comment: 18 pages, 11 figures, latex; v2: Typos corrected and new references
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S-duality in AdS/CFT magnetohydrodynamics
We study the nonlinear hydrodynamics of a 2+1 dimensional charged conformal
fluid subject to slowly varying external electric and magnetic fields.
Following recent work on deriving nonlinear hydrodynamics from gravity, we
demonstrate how long wavelength perturbations of the AdS dyonic black brane
solution of 4D supergravity are governed by equations equivalent to fluid
dynamics equations in the boundary theory. We investigate the implications of
-duality for our system, and derive restrictions imposed on the transport
coefficients of a generic fluid invariant under the S operation. We also expand
on our earlier work and determine a new set of previously undetermined
transport coefficients for the conformal fluid with an AdS gravity dual. Quite
surprisingly, we discover that half of the transport coefficients allowed by
symmetry vanish in the holographic fluid at linear order in the hydrodynamic
expansion.Comment: 25 page
Gauge/Gravity Duality and Some Applications
We discuss the AdS/CFT correspondence in which space-time emerges from an
interacting theory of D-branes and open strings. These ideas have a historical
continuity with QCD which is an interacting theory of quarks and gluons. In
particular we review the classic case of D3 branes and the non-conformal D1
brane system. We outline by some illustrative examples the calculations that
are enabled in a strongly coupled gauge theory by correspondence with dynamical
horizons in semi-classical gravity in one higher dimension. We also discuss
implications of the gauge-fluid/gravity correspondence for the information
paradox of black hole physics.Comment: 19 pages, 2 figures, Contribution to "Conference in Honor of Murray
Gell-Mann's 80th Birthday
Nonlinear Magnetohydrodynamics from Gravity
We apply the recently established connection between nonlinear fluid dynamics
and AdS gravity to the case of the dyonic black brane in AdS_4. This yields the
equations of fluid dynamics for a 2+1 dimensional charged fluid in a background
magnetic field. We construct the gravity solution to second order in the
derivative expansion. From this we find the fluid dynamical stress tensor and
charge current to second and third order in derivatives respectively, along
with values for the associated transport coefficients.Comment: 20 pages. v3: Added section 2.3 on comparison to other approaches and
definition of viscosit
Spin-glass-like state in GdCu: role of phase separation and magnetic frustration
We report investigations on the ground state magnetic properties of
intermetallic compound GdCu through dc magnetization measurements. GdCu
undergoes first order martensitic type structural transition over a wide
temperature window of coexisting phases. The high temperature cubic and the low
temperature orthorhombic phases have different magnetic character and they show
antiferromagnetic and helimagnetic orderings below 145 K and 45 K respectively.
We observe clear signature of a glassy magnetic phase below the helimagnetic
ordering temperature, which is marked by thermomagnetic irreversibility, aging
and memory effects. The glassy magnetic phase in GdCu is found to be rather
intriguing with its origin lies in the interfacial frustration due to distinct
magnetic character of the coexisting phases.Comment: Physical Review B 83, 134427 (2011
Constraints on Fluid Dynamics from Equilibrium Partition Functions
We study the thermal partition function of quantum field theories on
arbitrary stationary background spacetime, and with arbitrary stationary
background gauge fields, in the long wavelength expansion. We demonstrate that
the equations of relativistic hydrodynamics are significantly constrained by
the requirement of consistency with any partition function. In examples at low
orders in the derivative expansion we demonstrate that these constraints
coincide precisely with the equalities between hydrodynamical transport
coefficients that follow from the local form of the second law of
thermodynamics. In particular we recover the results of Son and Surowka on the
chiral magnetic and chiral vorticity flows, starting from a local partition
function that manifestly reproduces the field theory anomaly, without making
any reference to an entropy current. We conjecture that the relations between
transport coefficients that follow from the second law of thermodynamics agree
to all orders in the derivative expansion with the constraints described in
this paper.Comment: Typos corrected, References adde
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