Hydrodynamics: from effective field theory to holography

Thesis

Hydrodynamics is an effective theory that is extremely successful in describing a wide range of physical phenomena in liquids, gases and plasmas. However, our understanding of the structure of the theory, its microscopic origins and its behaviour at strong coupling is far from complete.

To understand how an effective theory of dissipative hydrodynamics could emerge from a closed microscopic system, we analyse the structure of effective Schwinger-Keldysh Closed-Time-Path theories. We...

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Authors: Grozdanov, S

• Publication date: 2014
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: Oxford University, UK
• Language: English
• Keywords: supersymmetry; hydrodynamics; effective field theory; AdS/CFT; gauge/string duality
• Subjects: Elementary particle theory; Condensed matter theory; Theoretical physics