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Convergence of the gradient expansion in hydrodynamics

Abstract:
Hydrodynamic excitations corresponding to sound and shear modes in fluids are characterized by gapless dispersion relations. In the hydrodynamic gradient expansion, their frequencies are represented by power series in spatial momenta. We investigate the analytic structure and convergence properties of the hydrodynamic series by studying the associated spectral curve in the space of complexified frequency and complexified spatial momentum. For the strongly coupled N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills plasma, we use the holographic duality methods to demonstrate that the derivative expansions have finite nonzero radii of convergence. Obstruction to the convergence of hydrodynamic series arises from level crossings in the quasinormal spectrum at complex momenta.
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Published
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Peer reviewed

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10.1103/physrevlett.122.251601

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Physics
Sub department:
Theoretical Physics
Oxford college:
St John's College
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Publisher:
American Physical Society
Journal:
Physical Review Letters More from this journal
Volume:
122
Pages:
251601
Publication date:
2019-06-28
Acceptance date:
2019-06-11
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EISSN:
1079-7114
ISSN:
0031-9007


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English
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pubs:1030936
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uuid:49cc9a4b-546d-4bd5-976a-bf3f545df9b7
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1030936
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2019-07-10

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