4–6 Oct 2017
SU campus
Europe/Stockholm timezone

Hydrodynamics for ideal fluids without boosts

5 Oct 2017, 12:00
30m
E306 (SU campus)

E306

SU campus

Speaker

Watse Sybesma

Description

Many materials that behave as so-called non-relativistic fluids with strong interactions exhibit interesting properties, such as non-conventional superconductivity and superfluidity. The fact that non-relativistic fluids do not necessarily allow for boost symmetries poses a problem for making predictions using hydrodynamics, in which normally Lorentz or Galilean boosts are assumed. Me and my collaborators generalized the framework of hydrodynamics to work beyond situations where there is a boost symmetry. I will talk about this framework. As a proof of principle, I will compute the speed of sound for a gas of Lifshitz particles, which is a realization of a non-relativistic fluid without boost symmetry. If time permits I will cover some beyond ideal fluid results.

Presentation materials