Sound waves in strongly coupled non-conformal gauge theory plasma

Abstract

Gauge/string correspondence provides an efficient method to investigate gauge theories. In this talk we discuss the results of the paper (to appear) by P. Benincasa, A. Buchel and A. O. Starinets, where the propagation of sound waves is studied in a strongly coupled non-conformal gauge theory plasma. In particular, a prediction for the speed of sound as well as for the bulk viscosity is made for the N=2* gauge theory in the high temperature limit. As expected, the results achieved show a deviation from the speed of sound and the bulk viscosity for a conformal theory. It is pointed out that such results depend on the particular gauge theory considered.

9 pages, talk given at 27th MRST conference, contribution to proceedings

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• Viscosity in Strongly Interacting Quantum Field Theories from Black Hole Physics
• On universality of stress-energy tensor correlation functions in supergravity
• N=2* hydrodynamics

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