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SFB Extra Seminar

"Hall viscosity in strongly coupled fluids"
Date: 07/31/2019, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Category: Seminar
Location: Hubland Süd, Geb. P1 (Physik), SE 5
Organizer: SFB 1170 ToCoTronics
Speaker: Prof. Carlos Hoyos - University of Oviedo, Spain

Hall viscosity is the analog of Hall conductivity for shear stress. In general, it can be nonzero whenever time reversal and parity are
broken in a 2+1 dimensional system, for instance in the presence of an external magnetic field. However, in strongly coupled fluids
with a holographic dual description the Hall viscosity was found to be zero, which is at odds with attempts to use holography to
describe Fractional Quantum Hall systems. In this talk I explain how the holographic model can be modified to accommodate for
a nonzero Hall viscosity via higher derivative terms on the gravity side.

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