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Shear Viscosity of Turbulent Chiral Plasma

2016/05/17 by Avdhesh Kumar, Kumar, Avdhesh, Jitesh R. Bhatt +5
Physics and Astronomy · #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics #hep-ph #nucl-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1605.05295

8 pages, 1 figure

arxiv created 2016/05/17 · arxiv updated 2016/05/18

Abstract

It is well known that the difference between the chemical potentials of left-handed and right-handed particles in a parity violating (chiral) plasma can lead to an instability. We show that the chiral instability may drive turbulent transport. Further we estimate the anomalous viscosity of chiral plasma arising from the enhanced collisionality due to turbulence.

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