Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS April Meeting 2024
Wednesday–Saturday, April 3–6, 2024; Sacramento & Virtual
Session R10: Mathematical General Relativity
10:45 AM–12:33 PM,
Saturday, April 6, 2024
SAFE Credit Union Convention Center
Room: Ballroom B1, Floor 2
Sponsoring
Units:
DGRAV DCOMP
Chair: Greg Galloway, University of Miami
Abstract: R10.00001 : General-Relativistic Viscous Fluids*
10:45 AM–11:21 AM
Presenter:
Marcelo M Disconzi
(Vanderbilt University)
Author:
Marcelo M Disconzi
(Vanderbilt University)
The discovery of the quark-gluon plasma that forms in heavy-ion collision experiments provides a unique opportunity to study properties of matter under extreme conditions, as the quark-gluon plasma is the hottest, smallest, and densest fluid known to humanity. Studying the quark-gluon plasma also provides a window into the earliest moments of the universe, since microseconds after the Big Bang the universe was filled with matter in the form of the quark-gluon plasma.
For more than two decades, the community has intensely studied the quark-gluon plasma with the help of a rich interaction of experiments, theory, phenomenology, and numerical simulations. From these investigations, a coherent picture has emerged, indicating that the quark-gluon plasma behaves essentially like a relativistic liquid with viscosity.
More recently, state-of-the-art numerical simulations strongly suggested that viscous and dissipative effects can also have non-negligible effects on gravitational waves produced by binary neutron star mergers. But despite the importance of viscous effects for the study of such systems, a robust and mathematically sound theory of relativistic fluids with viscosity is still lacking. This is due, in part, to difficulties in preserving causality upon the inclusion of viscous and dissipative effects into theories of relativistic fluids.
In this talk, we will survey the history of the problem and report on a new approach to relativistic viscous fluids that addresses these issues.
*I gratefully acknowledge support from NSF grant DMS-2107701, from a Chancellor's Faculty Fellowship, and from a Vanderbilt's Seeding Success Grant. I also acknowledge past support from a Sloan Research Fellowship, the NSF, and Vanderbilt's internal grants and fellowship programs.
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