Speaker
Andre Oliveira Pinheiro
(Heriot-Watt University)
Description
The hydrodynamics of crystals without topological defects (e.g. dislocations) can be accounted for by considering a set of 2-form global symmetries. In thermal equilibrium, the holographic dual to such a crystal is an AdS black brane charged under 2-form gauge fields. By extending the fluid-gravity correspondence to such backgrounds we obtain both dissipative and non-dissipative transport coefficients. We also consider the spectrum of hydrodynamical modes and find instabilities for a certain range of our theory’s parameters.
Author
Andre Oliveira Pinheiro
(Heriot-Watt University)
Co-author
Dr
Richard A. Davison
(Heriot-Watt University)
