Hydrodynamic excitations in hot QCD plasma
Abstract
We study the long wavelength excitations in rotating QCD fluid in the presence of an external magnetic field at finite vector and axial charge densities. We consider the fluctuations of vector and axial charge currents coupled to energy and momentum fluctuations and compute the S O (3 ) covariant dispersion relations of the six corresponding hydrodynamic modes. Among them, there are always two scalar chiral-magnetic-vortical-heat (CMVH) waves; in the absence of a magnetic field (vorticity) these waves reduce to chiral-vortical-heat (CVH) [chiral-magnetic-heat (CMH)] waves. While CMVH waves are a mixture of CMH and CVH waves, they have generally different velocities compared to the sum of velocities of the latter waves. The other four modes, which are made out of scalar-vector fluctuations, are mixed sound-Alfvén waves. We show that when the magnetic field is parallel with the vorticity, these four modes are the two ordinary sound modes together with two chiral Alfvén waves propagating along the common direction of the magnetic field and vorticity.
- Publication:
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Physical Review D
- Pub Date:
- December 2017
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.96.126002
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1612.08614
- Bibcode:
- 2017PhRvD..96l6002A
- Keywords:
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- Nuclear Theory;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;
- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 34 pages, 3 figures, 4 tables, v2: one table removed, anomalous transport coefficients corrected, a subsection on Chiral Heat Wave added, references added, v3: PRD version