The viscosity to entropy ratio: From string theory motivated bounds to warm dense matter transport

We study the ratio of viscosity to entropy density in Yukawa one-component plasmas as a function of coupling parameter at fixed screening, and in realistic warm dense matter models as a function of temperature at fixed density. In these two situations, the ratio is minimized for values of the coupli...

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Published in:High energy density physics 2014-09, Vol.12, p.21-26
Main Authors: Faussurier, G., Libby, S.B., Silvestrelli, P.L.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Entropy density
Viscosity
Warm dense matter
Yukawa one-component plasmas
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Summary:We study the ratio of viscosity to entropy density in Yukawa one-component plasmas as a function of coupling parameter at fixed screening, and in realistic warm dense matter models as a function of temperature at fixed density. In these two situations, the ratio is minimized for values of the coupling parameters that depend on screening, and for temperatures that in turn depend on density and material. In this context, we also examine Rosenfeld arguments relating transport coefficients to excess reduced entropy for Yukawa one-component plasmas. For these cases we show that this ratio is always above the lower-bound conjecture derived from string theory ideas.
ISSN:1574-1818
1878-0563
DOI:10.1016/j.hedp.2014.06.001