Shear Viscosity of a Non-Relativistic Conformal Gas in Two Dimensions

Aug, 2008
7 pages
Published in:
  • Chin.J.Phys. 50 (2012) 763-767
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Abstract: (arXiv)
The shear viscosity, eta, of a fermi gas with non-relativistic conformal symmetry in two spatial dimensions is investigated. We find that eta/s, s being the entropy density, diverges as a gas of free particles in this system. It is in contrast to the eta/s=1/(4 pi) found using non-relativistic AdS/CFT correspondence, which requires a strongly interacting CFT. It implies the unitary fermi gas in two spatial dimensions is not likely to have a weakly interacting gravity dual.
Note:
  • 6 pages, 1 figure/ minor corrections and references added
  • symmetry: conformal
  • entropy: density
  • gas: viscosity
  • dimension: 3
  • fermion: nonrelativistic