Breaking rotations without violating the KSS viscosity bound

Abstract

We revisit the computation of the shear viscosity to entropy ratio in a holographic p-wave superfluid model, focusing on the role of rotational symmetry breaking. We study the interplay between explicit and spontaneous symmetry breaking and derive a simple horizon formula for $\eta /s$, which is valid also in the presence of explicit breaking of rotations and is in perfect agreement with the numerical data. We observe that a source which explicitly breaks rotational invariance suppresses the value of $\eta /s$ in the broken phase, competing against the effects of spontaneous symmetry breaking. However, $\eta /s$ always reaches a constant value in the limit of zero temperature, which is never smaller than the Kovtun-Son-Starinets (KSS) bound, $1/4\pi$. This behavior appears to be in contrast with previous holographic anisotropic models which found a power-law vanishing of $\eta /s$ at small temperature. This difference is shown to arise from the properties of the near-horizon geometry in the extremal limit. Thus, our construction shows that the breaking of rotations itself does not necessarily imply a violation of the KSS bound.

20 pages, 7 figures

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