Viscosity in strongly interacting quantum field theories from black hole physics

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 11, 2005, Pages

  Kovtun, P K ^a   Son, D T ^b   Starinets, A O ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACK HOLE PHYSICS; KUBO'S FORMULA; SHEAR VISCOSITY; SUPERGRAVITY;

ASTROPHYSICS; ENTROPY; FUNCTIONS; HOLOGRAPHY; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THERMAL EFFECTS; VISCOSITY;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 18044397667     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.111601     Document Type: Article

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