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Fluid viscosity:from Maxwell to string theory
Dam T. Son (INT, University of Washington)Aspen, Feb 2011
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Water and honey
Water and honey flow with different rates:different viscosity
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ViscosityViscosity can be quantified:
water: 1 centipoise (cp)air: 0.02 cphoney: 2000-10000 cp
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ViscosityViscosity can be quantified:
water: 1 centipoise (cp)air: 0.02 cphoney: 2000-10000 cp
Stokes’ law: how fast a smallball falls in a fluid
slower in a more viscous fluid
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James Clerk Maxwell
• Unification of electricity and magnetism
• predicted the existence of electromagnetic waves, which enable radio communication
• laid the foundation for Einstein’s work on relativity
• Kinetic theory of gases
J.C.Maxwell thought about the origin of viscosity
Maxwell (1831-1879) was one of the most famous scientists of all times
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Kinetic theory of gases
And they speculated that in air the molecules would move mostly in straight lines.
Occasionally they bump onto each other
At Maxwell’s time, people was speculating about molecules
But no one had seen a moleculeNo one was sure that molecules exist
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Maxwell’s formula1860: James Clerk Maxwell showed that, if a gas is actually made of molecules
then its viscosity can be computed by multiplying 3 things
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Maxwell’s formula1860: James Clerk Maxwell showed that, if a gas is actually made of molecules
then its viscosity can be computed by multiplying 3 things
density: how many grams in a liter (1.3 g/L for air)
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Maxwell’s formula1860: James Clerk Maxwell showed that, if a gas is actually made of molecules
then its viscosity can be computed by multiplying 3 things
density: how many grams in a liter (1.3 g/L for air)
average velocity of molecules (250 m/s)
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Maxwell’s formula1860: James Clerk Maxwell showed that, if a gas is actually made of molecules
then its viscosity can be computed by multiplying 3 things
the mean free path
density: how many grams in a liter (1.3 g/L for air)
average velocity of molecules (250 m/s)
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Mean free path
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is the mean distance between molecule travels between collisions
In air, mean free path = 65 nanometersshort, but much bigger than the molecules themselves
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Maxwell’s law
1 atmosphere 0.5 atmospheres
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Maxwell’s law
1 atmosphere 0.5 atmospheresdensity twice smaller
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Maxwell’s law
1 atmosphere 0.5 atmospheresdensity twice smaller
mean free path: twice bigger
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Maxwell’s law
1 atmosphere 0.5 atmospheresdensity twice smaller
mean free path: twice biggersame velocity
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Maxwell’s law
1 atmosphere 0.5 atmospheres
Viscosity = density x velocity x mean free path
density twice smallermean free path: twice bigger
same velocity
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Maxwell’s law
1 atmosphere 0.5 atmospheres
Viscosity = density x velocity x mean free pathviscosity does not vary with pressure!
density twice smallermean free path: twice bigger
same velocity
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Stokes lead Maxwell astray
Maxwell: My theory predicts that viscosity of air does not change with pressure!
Stokes: No way! Someone did the measurement and surely viscosity changed!
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Maxwell losing faith in the existence of molecules
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Maxwell losing faith in the existence of molecules
“Such a consequence of a mathematical theory is very starting, and the only experiment I have met on the subject does not seem to confirm it”---Maxwell, 1860
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Maxwell losing faith in the existence of molecules
“Such a consequence of a mathematical theory is very starting, and the only experiment I have met on the subject does not seem to confirm it”---Maxwell, 1860
...but then he had a second thought...
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Maxwell got his wife’s help
Perhaps I should do themeasurements myself
Let me help you!
James Clerk and Katherine Maxwell
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Maxwell the experimentalistMaxwell’s own experiment
During the next few years Maxwell, with the help of hiswife, designed and carried out his own expriment.
Reported result in 1865: viscosity of air is independentof pressure when the latter varies from about 1/60 to oneatmosphere.
But perhaps this fact has been stumbled upon long beforeMaxwell.
GSI 2009 – p.5/42
During the next few years, Maxwell (with the help of his wife), designed and carried out his own experiment
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Maxwell the experimentalistMaxwell’s own experiment
During the next few years Maxwell, with the help of hiswife, designed and carried out his own expriment.
Reported result in 1865: viscosity of air is independentof pressure when the latter varies from about 1/60 to oneatmosphere.
But perhaps this fact has been stumbled upon long beforeMaxwell.
GSI 2009 – p.5/42
During the next few years, Maxwell (with the help of his wife), designed and carried out his own experiment
Reported result in 1865: viscosity of air is independent of pressure between 1/60 and 1 atmosphere
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Maxwell the experimentalistMaxwell’s own experiment
During the next few years Maxwell, with the help of hiswife, designed and carried out his own expriment.
Reported result in 1865: viscosity of air is independentof pressure when the latter varies from about 1/60 to oneatmosphere.
But perhaps this fact has been stumbled upon long beforeMaxwell.
GSI 2009 – p.5/42
During the next few years, Maxwell (with the help of his wife), designed and carried out his own experiment
Reported result in 1865: viscosity of air is independent of pressure between 1/60 and 1 atmosphere
Maxwell the experimentalist confirmed prediction of Maxwell the theorist
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Maxwell the experimentalistMaxwell’s own experiment
During the next few years Maxwell, with the help of hiswife, designed and carried out his own expriment.
Reported result in 1865: viscosity of air is independentof pressure when the latter varies from about 1/60 to oneatmosphere.
But perhaps this fact has been stumbled upon long beforeMaxwell.
GSI 2009 – p.5/42
During the next few years, Maxwell (with the help of his wife), designed and carried out his own experiment
Reported result in 1865: viscosity of air is independent of pressure between 1/60 and 1 atmosphere
Maxwell the experimentalist confirmed prediction of Maxwell the theorist
Perhaps this fact has been stumbled upon long before Maxwell?
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Robert Boyle’s experimentBoyle’s experimentBoyle and Hooke’s experiment # 26 (1660)
pendulum in a glass container
pump out air: naively one expects oscillations to last longer: less dissipation
Actual result: no appreciable change in damping rate
Consistent with Maxwell’s finding.
GSI 2009 – p.6/42
Experiment #26: pendulum in a glass container
pump out air: Boyle hoped to see the pendulum to go on for a longer time
actual result: no appreciable change at all
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Viscosity of liquids
• Viscosity of liquids is much less understood
• cannot be connected to the mean free path: molecules interact too strongly
• Cover a huge range, from water to pitch (tar)
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Pitch drop experiment
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Pitch drop experiment
Started in 1930
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Pitch drop experiment
Started in 1930
8 drops fell so far
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Pitch drop experiment
Started in 1930
8 drops fell so far
but no one has ever witnessed a drop fall
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Pitch drop experiment
Started in 1930
8 drops fell so far
but no one has ever witnessed a drop fall
2005 Ig Nobel Prize in Physics
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Pitch drop experiment
Started in 1930
8 drops fell so far
but no one has ever witnessed a drop fall
2005 Ig Nobel Prize in Physics
Viscosity of pitch: 230 billions times that of water
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Purcell
Edward Mills Purcell (1912-1997)
Shared 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance
used for MRI
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Purcell’s observation
“if you look at the Chemical Rubber Handbook table you will find that there is almost no liquid with viscosity much lower than that of water. The viscosities have a big range but they stop at the same place. I don't understand that.”
Viscosity of liquids can be very large (pitch) but for some reason cannot be too small!
Purcell, “Life at low Reynolds number” 1976
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2000
• When I started thinking about viscosity, I (and perhaps most people in my field) was not aware of the history related to viscosity
• Instead, our thinking was mostly driven by experiments with the the most extreme states of matter
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2000: RHIC experiment startedHeavy ion collisionsExperiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at BrookhavenNational LabColliding gold beam with energy 200 GeV per pair of nucleons
GSI 2009 – p.13/42
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, Long Island, NY
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Collision
v=0.99995 c v=0.99995 c
Such collisions produce thousands of particles
Gold nucleus Gold nucleus
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production of particlesA tybpical heavy ion collision
Goal: to create and study the quark gluon plasma
GSI 2009 – p.14/42
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production of particlesA tybpical heavy ion collision
Goal: to create and study the quark gluon plasma
GSI 2009 – p.14/42
a very dense droplet of matterin the beginning
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Extreme matter at RHIC
• Extremely hot: thousands billion degrees
• As hot as the Universe during the first millionths of a second
• But we get only a fleeting glimpse: the whole thing decays very quickly
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Findings of RHICa two-sentence summary
RHIC has created a medium which behaves like a fluid with little viscosity
Viscosity is so small that Maxwell’s theory has to be stretched to the limit
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How do we know it is a fluid?
get the nuclei to glancethrough each other
almond-shape droplet
wait for it to expand
Surprisingly, the result is exactly like what condensed matter physicists saw in a completely different system
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Expansion of a atomic gas cloud
(Cao et al, Science 2010)
Extremely low temperatures: 1 billionth of a degree
In both cases, the shorter axis becomes the longer one, and vice versa
Can only be explained if the droplet is a fluid, not a collection of independent particles
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Strong interactions
• In the matter created by RHIC, particles collide too frequently to be considered as a good gas
• a dense gas, bordering on a liquid state
• None of the methods of theoretical physics work in this regime
• Enter string theory
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Maldacena’s crucial breakthrough
particles in 4 dimensions = strings in 5 dimensions1997: gauge/gravity duality
(from Nature)
Sometimes, the string picture is clearer than the particle picture!
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String theory’s dual role
A candidate fortheory unifying all interactions
A set of mathematical tools
Richness of string theory means that we now canexplore many more different possibilities than before.
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Gauge gravity duality makes things simpler
Hot matter Black hole(not in real life, but only
as a mathematical description)
=
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Viscosity entropy ratio2003: Kovtun, Starinets and myself, using gauge/gravity duality, found that
viscosity by itself is not that interesting
but
viscosityentropy density
could be much more interesting!
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Entropy densityEntropy is the measure of our ignorance of the state of a body:
How many bits of information needed to know all information about a given cubic centimeter of water?
S=4 ×1023 bits/cm3
001001110 . . . 00101� �� �S
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Entropy densityEntropy is the measure of our ignorance of the state of a body:
How many bits of information needed to know all information about a given cubic centimeter of water?
S=4 ×1023 bits/cm3
001001110 . . . 00101� �� �S
in an average
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Consequence of Maldacena’s theory
η
s=
�4π
In a large class of systems:
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Consequence of Maldacena’s theory
η
s=
�4π
viscosityfluid dynamics
In a large class of systems:
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Consequence of Maldacena’s theory
η
s=
�4π
viscosityfluid dynamics
entropythermodynamics
In a large class of systems:
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Consequence of Maldacena’s theory
η
s=
�4π
viscosityfluid dynamics
entropythermodynamics
Planck’s constantquantum mechanics
In a large class of systems:
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Why quantum mechanics?
Particle-wave duality: particle is wave
mean free path cannot be shorter than wavelength
otherwise a particle does not have time to “live” as a particle
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What does it mean to have
ħ4π
viscosityentropy density
=
Particles barely have enough time to make one beat before bumping to another
Probably the shortest mean free path allowed
Viscosity cannot be much smaller than that: Purcell
All laboratory liquids have viscosity/entropy densityat least 8 times larger than the value above
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Matter created at RHICRecent numerical simulations
0 1 2 3 4pT [GeV]
0
5
10
15
20
25
v 2 (p
erce
nt)
STAR non-flow corrected (est.)STAR event-plane
Glauber
!/s=10-4
!/s=0.08
!/s=0.16
0 1 2 3 4pT [GeV]
0
5
10
15
20
25
v 2 (p
erce
nt)
STAR non-flow corrected (est).STAR event-plane
CGC!/s=10-4
!/s=0.08
!/s=0.16
!/s=0.24
(from Luzum and Romatschke, arXiv:0804)Remarks:
Reproduce main features of the dataSensitive to the choice of initial condition!/s is at most a few times !/(4")
!s
= 0.1 ± 0.1(th) ± 0.08(exp)
GSI 2009 – p.33/42
Recent numerical simulations
0 1 2 3 4pT [GeV]
0
5
10
15
20
25
v 2 (p
erce
nt)
STAR non-flow corrected (est.)STAR event-plane
Glauber
!/s=10-4
!/s=0.08
!/s=0.16
0 1 2 3 4pT [GeV]
0
5
10
15
20
25
v 2 (p
erce
nt)
STAR non-flow corrected (est).STAR event-plane
CGC!/s=10-4
!/s=0.08
!/s=0.16
!/s=0.24
(from Luzum and Romatschke, arXiv:0804)Remarks:
Reproduce main features of the dataSensitive to the choice of initial condition!/s is at most a few times !/(4")
!s
= 0.1 ± 0.1(th) ± 0.08(exp)
GSI 2009 – p.33/42Not too far away from 1/4π=0.08, in any case much smaller than any known liquid
Romatschke and Luzum
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High or low viscosity?BNL press release 2005:“The degree of collective interaction, rapid thermalization, and extremely low viscosity of the matter being form at RHIC makes this the most nearly perfect liquid ever observed.”
Estimating the viscosity of the RHIC matter:
High or low viscosity?Brookhaven National Lab press release 2005: “the degree of collective interaction,rapid thermalization, and extremely low viscosity of the matter being formed atRHIC make this the most nearly perfect liquid ever observed.
Estimating the viscosity of the QGP:
! !!
4"s !
10!27erg · s(10!13cm)3
! 1014cp
GSI 2009 – p.34/42
In absolute term, almost as viscous as a glass!
Low viscosity: in the sense of small η/s, suggested by gauge/gravity duality.
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Aspen winter workshop• Is string theory useful for physics of new materials?
• Can string theory be used as a tool to explain high-temperature superconductivity?
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Aspen winter workshop• Is string theory useful for physics of new materials?
• Can string theory be used as a tool to explain high-temperature superconductivity?
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Aspen winter workshop• Is string theory useful for physics of new materials?
• Can string theory be used as a tool to explain high-temperature superconductivity?
We have reasons to be cautiously optimistic
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The End