Transport coefficients in Yang-Mills theory and QCD

Phys Rev Lett. 2015 Sep 11;115(11):112002. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.112002. Epub 2015 Sep 10.

Abstract

We calculate the shear-viscosity-over-entropy-density ratio η/s in Yang-Mills theory from the Kubo formula using an exact diagrammatic representation in terms of full propagators and vertices using gluon spectral functions as external input. We provide an analytic fit formula for the temperature dependence of η/s over the whole temperature range from a glueball resonance gas at low temperatures, to a high-temperature regime consistent with perturbative results. Subsequently, we provide a first estimate for η/s in QCD.