Dissipation in the effective field theory for hydrodynamics: First order effects

We introduce dissipative effects in the effective field theory of hydrodynamics. We do this in a model-independent fashion by coupling the long-distance degrees of freedom explicitly kept in the effective field theory to a generic sector that “lives in the fluid,” which corresponds physically to the microscopic constituents of the fluid. At linear order in perturbations, the symmetries, the derivative expansion, and the assumption that this microscopic sector is thermalized allow us to characterize the leading dissipative effects at low frequencies via three parameters only, which correspond to bulk viscosity, shear viscosity, and—in the presence of a conserved charge—heat conduction. Using our methods we rederive the Kubo relations for these transport coefficients.

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11.10.Ef
expansion: derivative
frequency: low
effective field theory
dissipation
hydrodynamics
viscosity
fluid
charge: conservation law

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