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On the hydrodynamic description of holographic viscoelastic models
Martin Ammon, Matteo Baggioli, Seán Gray, Sebastian Grieninger, Akash Jain
July 2020
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hydrodynamic
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Martin Ammon
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Matteo Baggioli
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Seán Gray
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Sebastian Grieninger
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Akash Jain
daTheoretisch-PhysikalischesInstitut,Friedrich-Schiller-UniversitätJena,Max-Wien-Platz1,D-07743Jena,Germany
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We show that the correct dualhydrodynamic description of homogeneousholographic models with spontaneously broken translations must include the so-called “strain pressure” – a novel transport coefficient proposed recently. Taking this new ingredient into account, we investigate the near-equilibriumdynamicsofalargeclassofholographicmodelsandfaithfullyreproduceallthehydrodynamic modespresent inthe quasinormalmodespectrum.Moreover,whilestrainpressure ischaracteristicof equilibriumconfigurationswhichdonotminimisethefreeenergy,weargueandshowthatitalsoaffects modelswithnobackgroundstrain,throughitstemperaturederivatives.Insummary,weprovideafirst completematchingbetweentheholographicmodels withspontaneouslybrokentranslationsand their effectivehydrodynamicdescription.
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Contents
1. Introduction . . . 1
2. Viscoelastichydrodynamics . . . 2
2.1. Constitutiverelations . . . 2
2.2. Linearmodes . . . 2
2.3. Unstrainedequilibriumconfigurations . . . 3
3. Holographicframework . . . 3
3.1. Holographicmassivegravity . . . 3
3.2. Strainedholographicmodels . . . 4
3.3. Unstrainedholographicmodels . . . 5
4. Conclusions . . . 6
Declarationofcompetinginterest . . . 6
Acknowledgements . . . 6
Appendix A. Holographicrenormalisation . . . 6
References . . . 7
1. Introduction
Models with broken translational invariance have attracted a great deal of interest in the holographic community in recent years,especiallyinrelationtotheirhydrodynamic description[1–
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Correspondingauthor.E-mailaddresses:martin.ammon@uni-jena.de(M. Ammon),
matteo.baggioli@uam.es(M. Baggioli),sean.gray@uni-jena.de(S. Gray),
sebastian.grieninger@gmail.com(S. Grieninger),ajain@uvic.ca(A. Jain).
9] and their possiblerelevance forstrange metal phenomenology [10–13].Particularemphasishasbeengiventotheso-called homo-geneous models, e.g. massive gravity [14–17]; Q-lattices [18,19]; andhelicallattices[20,21],duetotheirappealingsimplicity.
Despite the sustained activity in the field, there still remain a number of open questions. For instance, it has been unclear what hydrodynamic framework appropriately describesthe near-equilibriumdynamics offield theories dual tothese models.The authorsof[3] wrotedownagenerictheoryoflinearised hydrody-namicswithbrokentranslations(see also[22,2]),whichhasbeen https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135691
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2 M. Ammon et al. / Physics Letters B 808 (2020) 135691 widelyusedinholography [23,24,8,9,19,11,10,25,26].However,the
first indication that something was amiss came from [9], in the formof a disagreementbetween theholographic resultsandthe hydrodynamic predictions of [3] regardingthe longitudinal diffu-sion mode. Similarly, [6] found inconsistencies between the hy-drodynamictheory of [3] and thequasinormalperturbations ofa bulk modelwithexplicitly brokentranslations.Considering these results,itbecameclearthat the understandingofhydrodynamics waslacking somefundamental detailsneededinordertocapture theholographicresults.
Recently, a newfullynon-linear hydrodynamic theory for vis-coelasticity was proposed in [5]. At the linear level, this formu-lationdiffers from previous formulationsof viscoelastic hydrody-namicsduetothe presenceofan additionaltransportcoefficient,
P
, called the lattice- or strainpressure. Physically,P
is the dif-ference between the thermodynamic and mechanical pressures; intuitively,P
can be understoodasan additional contributionto themechanicalpressureasaresultofworkingaroundauniformly strainedequilibriumstate.Inthissensethestrainpressureis anal-ogous to the magnetisationpressure which appears in the pres-enceof an external magnetic field [27,28].P
is non-zero inthe holographicmodels mentionedabove and,asweillustrate inthis paper,isfundamentalinordertomatchtheholographicresultsto hydrodynamics.Itismisleading,however,todismissthisnewcoefficientpurely asanartifactofbackgroundstrain.
P
certainlyvanishesinan un-strainedequilibriumstatethat minimisesthe freeenergy(as dis-cussedin[29]),butaswewillillustrateinthispaper,its tempera-turedependencestillcarriesvitalphysicalinformationandaffects various modes throughP
= ∂
TP
. For instance, in scale invari-anttheories thisleads toa non-zero bulkmodulus B= −
TP
/
2. Hence, the preceding hydrodynamic frameworks would still fall shortin capturingthe near-equilibrium behaviour of holographic modelswithoutbackgroundstrain.In thispaper, we consider the mostgeneral isotropic Lorentz violating massivegravity theoriesintwo spatial dimensions[17]. The dual field theories correspond to isotropic, conformal, and generically strained viscoelastic systems withspontaneously bro-ken translations.Bycarefully studyingthe quasinormalmodesin these systems,we illustrate that they are perfectly described by thehydrodynamicframeworkof [5].Wealsobuildanew thermo-dynamicallystableholographicmodelwithzerobackgroundstrain. Using thisunstrained model, we show that the effectsof
P
are stillpresentwhenP
vanishesinequilibrium.2. Viscoelastichydrodynamics
Letus briefly review the formulation of viscoelastic hydrody-namicsfrom [5];wewill startwiththegeneric constitutive rela-tions for an isotropic viscoelastic fluid, including strain pressure, andwrite downthelinearmodespredictedby thehydrodynamic framework.Wefurtherextendtheworkof [5] bydiscussing ther-modynamically stableconfigurations with zerostrain pressure in equilibrium,butwithnonzerotemperaturederivatives,anddrawa comparisonwiththepreviouslyknownresultsof [3].Wework in
d
=
2 spatialdimensionsforsimplicity.2.1. Constitutiverelations
Thefundamental ingredientsinthetheory arethefluid veloc-ityuμ, temperature T , andtranslationGoldstone bosons
I.We define eI
μ
= ∂
μI, which is used to further define hI J
=
eIμeJμ, eIμ=
h−I J1eJ
μ,hμν
=
h−I J1eIμeJ
ν ,andthestraintensoruμν
=
12(
h− 1I J
−
δ
I J/
α
2)
eIμeν ,J forsomeconstantα
.Theconstitutiverelationsofanisotropic neutralviscoelasticsystem,written inasmallstrain ex-pansion,aregivenas [5]
Tμν
=
+
p+
TP
uλλ uμuν+
p+
P
uλλη
μν+
P
hμν−
η σ
μν− ζ
Pμν∂
ρuρ−
2G uμν− (
B−
G)
uλλhμν,
(1a) with the thermodynamic identities dp=
sdT ,=
T s−
p and P μν=
η
μν=
uμuν . Here p andP
are the thermodynamic andstrain pressures respectively;
and s are energy and entropy densities; and G and B are the shear and bulk moduli.
σ
μν=
2P ρ(μ P ν)σ
∂
ρ uσ
−
P μν∂
ρ uρ is thefluidsheartensor,whileη
andζ
areshearandbulkviscosities.Allthecoefficientsappearinghere are functions of T ; prime denotes derivative with respect to Tforfixed
α
.Dynamicalevolutionof uμ andT is governedby the energy-momentum conservation equation∂
μ Tμν=
0; these areaccompanied by the configuration (Josephson) equations for the Goldstones uμeIμ
=
h I Jσ
∂
μP
eμJ− (
B−
G)
uλλeμJ−
2GuμνeJν,
(1b)where
σ
isadissipativecoefficientcharacteristicofspontaneously brokentranslations.2.2. Linearmodes
The
P
dependent terms in (1) have important consequences forthelowenergydispersionrelationofthehydrodynamicmodes. In summary, around an equilibrium state with uμ= δ
tμ, T=
T0,and
I
=
α
xI, we find two pairs of sound modes, one each in longitudinal and transverse sectors, anda diffusion mode in the longitudinalsectorω
= ±
v,⊥k−
i 2,⊥k
2
+ . . . ,
ω
= −
i Dk2
+ . . . .
(2) The sound velocities v,⊥,attenuation constants,⊥, and diffu-sionconstantDaregivenas
v2⊥
=
Gχ
π π,
v2=
(
s+
P
)
2 sχ
π π+
B+
G−
P
χ
π π,
⊥
=
η
χ
π π+
Gσ
s2T2χ
2 π π,
D=
s 2σ
s B+
G−
P
χ
π πv2,
=
η
+ ζ
χ
π π+
T2s2v2σ χ
π π 1−
s+
P
T sv2 2.
(3)Here
χ
π π=
+
p+
P
isthemomentumsusceptibility1;allfunc-tions are evaluated at T
=
T0. Note that the pair of transversesound modesare not presentwhen G
=
0; instead,they are re-placed by asingle sheardiffusionmodeω
= −
i D⊥k2 with D⊥=
η
/
χ
π π .2 We can obtain formulasfor various coefficientsappear-ing in (1) in terms of the free-energy density
, stress-tensor one-point function, and(uptocontact-terms) retardedtwo point functions
=
Ttt,
p= − ,
P
=
Txx+ ,
χ
π πv2=
lim ω→0klim→0Re G R TxxTxx,
1 Theobservationthatχ
π π =+p ingenericholographicmodelsof
viscoelastic-ity(i.e.thatthethermodynamicandmechanicalpressuresarenotnecessarilyequal) wasfirstmadein [24].
2 ThelimitG→0 issubtleandmustbeperformedatthelevelofthetransverse
sectordispersionrelations,ω2sT+1+ωT s iσ
G
=
χ
π πv2⊥=
ωlim→0klim→0Re GRTxyTxy,
η
= −
lim ω→0klim→0 1ω
Im G R TxyTxy,
(
+
p)
2σ χ
2 π π=
lim ω→0klim→0ω
Im G R xx.
(4)Thebulkmodulus B canbeobtainedindirectlyusingthev2 Kubo formula. Inthe equationsin thefirst lineabove, therelation be-tweenthestrain pressure
P
,thermodynamic pressure p,andthe mechanicalpressureTxx,ismanifest.
Forourapplicationtoholographyweshall,inthefollowing,be interestedin scale-invariant viscoelastic fluids, wherein T μμ
=
0. Thisleadstoasetofidentities=
2(
p+
P
) ,
TP
=
3P
−
2 B,
ζ
=
0.
(5)Takingderivativeofthefirstrelation,wealsofindthespecificheat
cv
=
T s=
2(
s+
P
)
. Using the above equations, we can derive a relation betweensound velocities, i.e. v2=
1/
2+
v2⊥ [30]. Forscale-invarianttheories v⊥ and
⊥ stay thesameasin(3), how-evertheexpressionsforthelongitudinalsectorsimplifyto
=
η
χ
π π+
T2s2G2σ χ
3 π πv2,
D=
T s 2/
σ
s+
P
B+
G−
P
χ
π π+
2G.
(6)Interestingly, apart from the implicit dependence in
χ
π π , in ascale-invariant viscoelasticfluid only D dependsexplicitly on
P
andP
, whichexplainsthe discrepancyreportedin thediffusion modein [9].Notethatusing(5),thebulkmoduluscanbe rewrit-tenasB= (
3P −
TP
)/
2.Consequently,ascale-invariant viscoelas-ticsystemonlyrespondstobulkstressifP,
P
=
0.32.3.Unstrainedequilibriumconfigurations
Let us now extend the analysis of [5] by considering equi-librium states without background strain, i.e. states where the equilibrium strain pressure is zero,
P(
T0)
=
0. In such a setupthe temperature derivative of the strain pressure need not van-ish,hence
P
(
T0)
=
0.4Nevertheless,themomentumsusceptibilityreducesto a familiar expression
χ
π π=
+
p. For genericscale-non-invarianttheories,wearriveatthemodes
v2⊥
=
G T s,
v 2=
(
s+
P
)
2 T ss+
B+
G T s,
⊥
=
η
T s+
Gσ
,
D=
sσ
T s B+
G v2,
=
η
+ ζ
T s+
T sv2σ
1−
s+
P
T sv2 2.
(7) Inthescale-invariantlimit,thelongitudinalmodesfurthersimplify tov2=
1/
2+
v2⊥ alongwith=
η
T s+
2G2/
σ
T s+
2G,
D=
T s2/
σ
s+
P
B+
G T s+
2G.
(8)The appearance of
P
in the denominator of D suggests that thetemperature dependenceof strain pressure still plays an im-portant role in an unstrained equilibrium configuration. Indeed,P
iscrucialforthermodynamicallystableholographicmodels,as3 Nevertheless,thecompressibilityβ≡ (−1/V)∂T
xx/∂V isfiniteeveninthe
ab-senceofthestrainpressure,andinthescale-invariantcaseitisgivenbyβ−1= (3/4)[31].Itispossibletoshowthatintermsofthecompressibilitythe longitu-dinalspeedcanbewrittenasv2
= (β−1+G)/χπ π[9,23].
4 Wewillreturntothispointinfurtherdetailbelow.
we illustrate below. In the absence of scale invariance, the ef-fects of
P
willalso contaminate the expression forthe longitu-dinalsoundmode. Other signaturesofstrain pressure ina scale-invariant viscoelastic system include non-canonical specific heat,cv
=
2(
s+
P
)
=
2s,andnonzerobulkmodulus B= −
TP
/
2=
0.5 Comparingourresultsto [3],wefindthat(7) matchesthe ex-pressions derived using the hydrodynamic framework of [3] for neutralrelativisticviscoelasticfluidsonlyifwefurthersetP
=
0. As a consequence,the resultsof [3] do not apply to general un-strained viscoelasticsystems withnonzeroP
.Notably, the anal-ysis of [3] can be extended to include certain couplings in the free-energydensitythathavebeenswitchedofftherein(see(A.7) of [3]). We find that such couplings are indeed important and precisely capturethe effects ofnonzeroP
via themapping b=
−
P
/
s.3. Holographicframework 3.1. Holographicmassivegravity
We will consider a simple holographic model with
(
d+
2)
-dimensional Einstein-AdS gravity coupled to d copies of Stückel-bergscalarsφ
I Sbulk=
dd+2x√
−
gR 2
+
d(
d+
1)
22
−
m 2V(
I
I J)
,
(9) whereI
I J=
gab∂
a
φ
I∂
bφ
Jisthekineticmatrix;istheAdS-radius, whichwesettooneinthefollowing;andm isaparameterrelated tothegravitonmass.Wehaveset8πGN
/
c4=
1.Fortheisotropic case in d=
2, we can generically take V(I
I J)
=
V(
X,
Z)
whereX
=
12trI
andZ=
detI
[16,17,23].Thescalarsφ
I aredual tothe boundary operatorsI andbreak the translational invariance of thedualfieldtheory(see[32] and[17] forthespecificsofthe sym-metry breaking pattern). Depending on the boundary conditions imposed on
φ
I,thisbreakingcan eitherbe explicit,spontaneous, orpseudo-spontaneous[15,33,8,23,5].Presently,weshallbe inter-estedinmodelswithspontaneouslybrokentranslationsleadingto phonondynamicsinthedualfieldtheory [24,9,23,34,31].We consider a black brane solution of (9) in Eddington-Finkelstein(EF)coordinateswiththemetric
ds2
=
1 u2−
f(
u)
dt2−
2 dt du+
dx2+
d y2,
(10) and a radially constant profile for the scalars,φ
I=
α
xI, for someconstantα
.The radialcoordinateu∈ [
0,
uh]
spansfromthe boundary u=
0 to the horizon u=
uh. The emblackening factorf
(
u)
takesasimpleformf
(
u)
=
1−
u 3 u3h−
u 3 uh u m2ℵ
4 V(
α
2ℵ
2,
α
4ℵ
4)
dℵ .
(11)Linear perturbations around the black brane geometry capture near-equilibrium finite temperature fluctuationsin the boundary fieldtheory [35,36,23,31,37].
Temperatureandentropydensityinthe boundaryfieldtheory areidentifiedwiththeHawkingtemperatureandareaoftheblack brane,respectively T
= −
f(
u h)
4π
=
3−
m2Vh 4π
uh,
s=
2π
uh2,
(12)5 Notethat [5] assumesP toalsovanishintheorieswithzerostrainpressure,
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Fig. 1.andDforV(X,Z)=XNmodelsforN=3,4,5 (fromtoptobottom)asfunctionsofthedimensionlessparameterm/T ,alongsidetheirhydrodynamicpredictions
from(3) (solidlines).
with Vh
=
V(
uh2α
2,
u4hα
4)
. The free energy density is defined as the renormalised euclidean on-shell action [38]. The expectation value T μν canberead offusingtheleadingfall-off ofthe met-ric at the boundary. Using the first row of (4), this leads to the thermodynamicquantities p=
1 2u3h−
m2 u3h1 2Vh
−
Uh,
=
1 u3h−
m2 u3hUh,
P
=
m2 uh31 2Vh
−
3 2Uh.
(13) We have defined Uh= −
u3h uh 0ℵ
− 4V(
α
2ℵ
2,
α
4ℵ
4)
dℵ
, assumingV
(
X,
Z)
to fall off faster than∼
u3 at the boundary.6 Details of holographic renormalisationfor thesemodelshave beengivenin Appendix A.Using the expressions in(13) togetherwith (5), we canfindthebulkmodulusB
=
m 2 4u3h 3Vh−
9Uh+
uh∂
uhVh(
m 2V h−
3)
m2V h−
uh∂
uhVh−
3,
(14)Finally,usingtheresults of[11,8,4], we canderive ahorizon for-mulafor
σ
,whichreadsσ
=
m2 2α
2u3 h∂
Vh∂
uh,
(15)andagreeswellwiththenumericalresultsobtainedwiththeKubo formulain(4).The remaining coefficients, G and
η
,must be ob-tainednumerically.Thenon-trivialexpressionfor
P
in(13) indicatesthepresence ofbackground strain inthese holographic models.This is associ-ated with the equilibriumstateφ
I=
α
xI not being a minimum of free energy [39,19,24]. To wit, using (13) one can check that d/
dα|
T= −
dp/
dα|
T=
0 leadstoP =
0.However,asisevident from(3), the presenceofP
by itself doesnot lead toany linear instability orsuperluminality [24,9,23].SettingP =
0 in (13), we canfindathermodynamicallyfavoured stateα
=
α
0 asanon-zerosolutionof Vh
=
3Uh.NoticethatP
|
α=α0=
0, whichmeansthatstrain pressure still plays a crucialrole in thedual hydrodynam-icsthroughitstemperaturederivatives,asdiscussedaround(8).In particular,thesemodels canhavenon-zero bulkmodulus despite beingscaleinvariant.
Simple monomial models considered previously in the litera-ture [23,17,24,36,31,37],such as V
(
X,
Z)
=
XN,
ZM,do notadmit6 For potentials that fall of slower than ∼u3 near the boundary, such as
V(X)=XN with N
<3/2, this integral is divergent. Nevertheless, perform-ingholographic renormalisation carefully (seeAppendix A),the thermodynamic quantities above can be computed explicitly and amounts to defining Uh= u3
h
∞
uhℵ
−4V(α2ℵ2,α4ℵ4)dℵinstead.
P =
0 states with non-zeroα
.7 The simplest models admitting states withP =
0 have polynomial potentials such as V(
X,
Z)
=
X+ λ
X2.Unfortunately, thisnaive modelisplaguedby linearin-stabilities.Nevertheless,itcanbeusedasatoymodeltoillustrate the importanceof
P
=
0;we returnto thedetails ofthismodel below.3.2. Strainedholographicmodels
Let us first specialize to the strained models with V
(
X,
Z)
=
XN,
ZM and N>
5/
2, M>
5/
4 to numerically obtain G andη
, andtest theagreement betweenquasinormalmodesandthe hy-drodynamic predictions. We can compute the full spectrum of quasinormal modes, in both the transverse and longitudinal sec-tors, using pseudo-spectral methods following [9,23,24,40,41]. As we discussedaround (6), thestrain pressure doesnot appear ex-plicitly in the transversesound modes, leading to the same pre-dictions by [3] and[5], modulo the definitionofχ
π π . Since thediscrepancyin
χ
π π hasalreadybeenidentifiedandtestedagainstholographicresults [24,23],hereweonlyfocusonthelongitudinal sector.
We start with V
(
X,
Z)
=
XN models.Note that Vh
=
α
2Nu2Nh andUh=
α
2Nu2Nh/(
3−
2N)
.Using(12)-(15),wecanexplicitlyfindT
=
3−
m 2V h 4π
uh,
s=
2π
u2h.
p=
1 2u3h1
−
2N−
1 2N−
3m 2V h,
=
1 uh31
+
m 2V h 2N−
3,
P
=
N 2N−
3 m2V h u3h,
P
= −
4π
u2h Nm2Vh 3+ (
2N−
1)
m2V h,
B=
Nm 2V h 2u3h3 2N
−
3+
3−
m2Vh 3+ (
2N−
1)
m2V h,
σ
=
Nm2Vhα
2u4 h,
cv=
4π
u2h 3−
m2V h 3+ (
2N−
1)
m2V h.
(16)Computing G and
η
numerically using (4), we can compare the hydrodynamic predictionforthelongitudinalattenuationconstantanddiffusionconstant Din(3) withthenumericalresults ob-tained forthe quasinormalmodesin theholographic model. The resultsareshowninFig.1.Theagreementisextremelygoodand isvalidindependentof N.Weno longerseeadiscrepancyinthe diffusionmode.
7 However,thewould-bepreferredstateα=0 isnotagoodvacuumofthe
the-ory,sincethemodelisstronglycoupledaroundthatbackground[24].Therefore,in thesetheories,itisincorrecttocomparefreeenergiesofstateswithα =0 against thestateα=0.
Fig. 2.and Dfor the model V(X,Z)=Z2, as a function of the dimensionless parameter m/T , and the hydrodynamic prediction from (3).
Fig. 3. Left: v2
⊥forV(X)=X+X2/2 modelwithP=0 alongsidethehydrodynamicpredictions(solidlines).Wehavechosenuh=1 settingα=1. Right: DforV(X)= X+X2/2 modelwithP=0 alongsidethehydrodynamicpredictions(solidlines).Wehavechosenu
h=1 settingα=1. Letusnow considermodels V
(
X,
Z)
=
ZM.In thiscase, Vh=
α
4Mu4Mh andUh
=
α
4Mu4M
h
/(
3−
4M)
.Theexpressionsfor thermo-dynamicquantitiesremainthesameasin(16) butwithN→
2M. Generically, X -independent potentialsV(
X,
Z)
=
V(
Z)
enjoy a largersymmetry group –the dualfield theory isinvariant under volumepreservingdiffeomorphisms,modelling afluid.These mod-elshaveG=
0,leading totheabsenceoftransversephonons [17], andη
saturating the Kovtun-Son-Starinets bound [35]. In Fig. 2weshowacomparisonbetweenthehydrodynamicpredictionand numericalresultsforquasinormalmodesforV
(
X,
Z)
=
Z2.Theex-cellent agreementconfirms that the hydrodynamic framework of [5] isvalidforageneralclassofviscoelasticmodelswithnon-zero strainpressure.
3.3.Unstrainedholographicmodels
Inthissection,weconsiderholographicmodelswithzerostrain pressure in equilibrium. These are thermodynamically favourable modelswhich admit translationally broken phasesthat minimise freeenergy.Wewillillustratethatevenforsuchmodels,thestrain pressureplaysacrucialroleinthedualhydrodynamicsthroughits temperaturederivatives and hence the hydrodynamic modes are governedbytheexpressionsineq.(8).
LetusconsiderthesimplestmodelV
(
X,
Z)
=
X+λ
X2.As men-tioned above, this model is unstable: (I) the shear modulus is negative,(II)the speedoftransversesoundisimaginary,and(III) thelongitudinaldiffusionconstantbecomesnegativeatlargem/
T .Itcanbeverifiedthatall themodels V
(
X,
Z)
=
XN1+ λ
XN2 withspontaneousbreakingof translationsand
P =
0 suffer fromsuch linearinstabilities,orhaveghostlyexcitationsinthebulk.8 Clearly, the model V(
X,
Z)
=
X+ λ
X2 cannot describe a stable physicalsystem,butit canbe usedasa toy exampletoillustrate the im-portanceofstrain pressure.Wefindthat Vh
=
α
2uh2+ λ
α
4u4h and8 Moreprecisely,formodelswithN
1<3/2 theshearmodulusisnegative;see
appendixof[24] forformulae.Hence,alsothemodelconsideredin[5] is dynami-callyunstable.
Uh
=
α
2u2h− λ
α
4uh4. SettingP
in(13) to zero, we find the pre-ferredvalueofα
=
0 tobeα
2=
12
λ
u2h,
(17)whichmatches theresultof[19] in thezerocharge densitylimit
ρ
=
0.9Weobtainthehydrodynamicparameters
T
=
3 4π
uh1
−
m 2 4λ
,
s=
2π
u2h,
p=
1 2u3h1
−
m 2 4λ
,
=
1 u3h1
−
m 2 4λ
,
P
=
−
4π
3u2h m2λ
+
5m2/
12,
B=
m 2 2λ
u3hλ
−
m2/
4λ
+
5m2/
12,
σ
=
2m 2 u2h,
cv=
4π
u2hλ
−
m2/
4λ
+
5m2/
12.
(18)Notice that the potential behaves as
∼
u2 nearthe boundary, so the alternatedefinition ofUh givenin footnote6 hasto be used informulas(13)-(14).G andη
havetobefoundnumericallyusing (4). We see thatP
=
0 leading to B=
0 and cv=
2s in these models,asdiscussedabove.We can also compute the quasinormalmodes forthis system numericallyandcomparethemagainst thehydrodynamic predic-tions presentedin eq.(8),andthat of[3] without
P
. Wesee in Fig.3that thetransverse speedofsound v⊥ is imaginarydueto negative shear modulus G; nevertheless the predictionfrom hy-drodynamicsmatchesperfectly.Weagainfindadiscrepancyin Dsimilar to[9] comparedto [3],which isresolved byincluding
P
contributions,asineq.(8);seeFig.3.9 Thenotationalrelationshipsareα≡k and
λ≡ λ2,wheretheright-handsidesof
theidentificationsarethenotationof[19].Noticealsothateq.(45)in[19] contains typos;itshouldreadk2I
Y1(0)+2λ2k
4I
Y2(0)− λ1ρ
2k2I
6 M. Ammon et al. / Physics Letters B 808 (2020) 135691 Despite the simplicity and linear instability of this model, it
sharesvariousfeaturesofinterestwithsimilarholographicmodels withoutbackgroundstrain,suchastheonediscussedin[19]. Simi-larmodelscanalsobeconstructedintheframeworksof [42,43,19,
20,44]. The requirement of thermodynamic stability forisotropic modelscanbeimplementedas
= −
Txx[29],whichaccording to (4) is precisely
P =
0. Irrespective of the particular model at play, while we mightbe able tosetP =
0 by judiciously choos-ingα
in theequilibriumstate, we will genericallybe left witha non-zeroP
,whichmustbetakenintoaccountinthedual hydro-dynamictheory.10At this stage, we are not aware ofany massive gravity or Q-lattices models which are both thermodynamically and dynami-callystable.11
4. Conclusions
Inthispaperwe illustrated thatthe theory ofviscoelastic hy-drodynamics formulated in [5] is the appropriate hydrodynamic description for the (strained) homogeneous holographic models of [17] with spontaneously brokentranslations. We showed that the theory faithfully predicts all the transport coefficients and thebehaviour ofthelow-energy quasinormalmodesin the holo-graphicsetup.Moreover,itresolvesthetensionsbetweenthe pre-vioushydrodynamic frameworkof[3] andtheholographic results reportedin [9].
Moreover,weextendedtheanalysisbeyond[5] andarguedthat theeffectsofthetemperaturederivativeofthestrainpressureare present even in unstrained equilibrium configurations. We con-structed athermodynamically stableholographic model,analysed itslow-lyingQNMs,andfoundagreementwiththeexpressionsin equation (8). We have also noted issues (dynamical instabilities) with the physicality of this thermodynamically favoured model (andothersimilarsetups[5,19]).
Generally,weexpectthatthehydrodynamic formulationof [5], withtheadditionoftheresultsanddiscussionspresentedinthis paper, will continue to work for all homogeneous holographic modelswithspontaneouslybrokentranslations[19,7,6,20],dueto thesamesymmetry-breakingpattern.
Theanalysisinthispaperopensupthestageforvarious inter-estingfutureexplorations.Animmediategoalwouldbetoinspect variousholographicmodelsofviscoelasticityintheliterature,with zero background strain, and identify the role ofnon-zero
P
on thequasinormalspectrum.Inparticular,therelationbetween dy-namic instability and the absence of strain pressure, which has been presented in thiswork, isworthy of further investigations. Furthermore,anotherinterestingdirectionistobetter understand theroleofstrainpressure,anditstemperaturederivative,in phys-icalsystems(seee.g. [46]).Theadditionofa smallexplicitbreakingoftranslationstothe hydrodynamicframeworkof[5] couldalsoprovidean understand-ingofthe universalphase relaxationrelation
∼
M2/
σ
(withthe Goldstonephase relaxation rate;M themass of the pseudo-Goldstonemode).Thisrelationwasproposedin[11] andwaslater verified for the models presented in this paper in [8]. It could also provide an explanation for the complex dynamics found in the pseudo-spontaneous limit in [23]. Furthermore,
seems to be tightly connected to the presence ofglobal bulk symmetries, whicharenot expectedtoappearinproperinhomogeneous peri-odic latticestructures. The physical interpretationof theseglobal
10
Seealso[6] forabulkanalysis.
11 PreliminaryresultssuggestthatthemodelinsectionII-Bof[19] isdynamically
unstableaswell[45].Thisissomewhatexpectedgiventhesimilaritieswithour
V(X)=X+ λX2model.
structures hasrecentlybeendiscussedin[47],andstillrepresents animportantpuzzleinthefield.
Onemayalsoconsidertheviscoelastichydrodynamictheoryof [5] beyond linear response in order to explore the full rheology oftheholographic modelsconsideredinthiswork,asinitiated in [37].
In conclusion, this work marks an important development in understanding thenature ofthefield theoriesdual tothe widely used holographicmodels withspontaneouslybrokentranslational invariance, andprovides anotherrobust bridge between hologra-phy, hydrodynamics (in its generalised viscoelastic form) and ef-fectivefieldtheory.
Declarationofcompetinginterest
Theauthorsdeclarethattheyhavenoknowncompeting finan-cialinterestsorpersonalrelationshipsthatcouldhaveappearedto influencetheworkreportedinthispaper.
Acknowledgements
We thankAristomenis Donos,Blaise Goutéraux,SeanHartnoll, Christiana PantelidouandVaiosZiogas forseveralhelpful discus-sions andcomments. S. Graywouldlike to thankIFT Madrid for hospitality during the initial stages of this work. S. Grieninger thanks the University ofVictoriafor hospitalityduring the initial stages of this work. MA is funded by the Deutsche Forschungs-gemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) – 406235073. MB acknowledges the support of the Spanish MINECO’s “Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa” Programme under grant
SEV-2012-0249. The work of S. Gray has been funded by the Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft(DFG)underGrantNo.406116891within the Research Training Group RTG 2522/1. S. Grieningergratefully acknowledges financial support by the DAAD (GermanAcademic Exchange Service) for a Jahresstipendium fürDoktorandinnen und Doktoranden in 2019. AJ is supported by the NSERC Discovery GrantprogramofCanada.
Appendix A. Holographicrenormalisation
Inthisappendixwegivesomedetailsregardingtheholographic renormalisationunderlyingthemodelsdiscussedinthemaintext. The bulk action (9) has to be supplemented with appropriate boundary counter terms to have a well-defined variational prin-ciple Scounter
=
u= dd+1x−
γ
K
−
d+
m 2V¯
( ¯
I
I J)
,
(A.1)where
γ
μν=
limu→ gμν istheinducedmetricattheboundary, Kis theextrinsic curvature,and
¯I
I J=
γ
μν∂
μ
φ
I∂
νφ
J. V¯
( ¯
I
I J)
is anappropriateboundarypotentialfixedbyrequiringthattheon-shell action of theblack brane solution (10) to be finite. Forinstance, ind
=
2,forV(
X)
=
XN modelswithN>
3/
2 wehave V¯
( ¯
X)
=
0, while for N<
3/
2 weget V¯
( ¯
X)
= ¯
X/(
3−
2N)
, where X¯
=
12tr¯I
. ForV(
X)
=
X+ λ
X2,weinsteadfindV¯
( ¯
X)
= ¯
X .Due to its novelty, we will in the remainder of this section mainlyfocusonholographicrenormalisationforV
(
X)
=
X+ λ
X2.To implement spontaneous symmetry breaking for models
whose boundary behaviour goes as V
(
X,
Z)
∼
XN,
ZM with N<
5/
2,
M<
5/
4, one needs to apply alternativequantisation for thescalars.12Moreprecisely, one needstodeform theboundary the-orywithaterm
Salt
=
u= dd+1x−
γ
I
φ
I,
(A.2) whereI
=
1√
−
γ
δ(
S+
Scounter)
δφ
I= δ
I J V(
X)
na∂
aφ
J+ ∇
(μγ)¯
V( ¯
X)∂
μφ
J.
(A.3)∇
(γ)μ isthecovariantderivative associatedwith
γ
μν andnaisthe outwardpointingnormalvectorattheboundary.The(A.2) termin theactionturnsI attheboundaryintothedynamical operator, whiletheassociatedsourceisnowgivenbytheboundaryvalueof
I.Weareinterestedindualhydrodynamicmodelsintheabsence of sources for the scalars. Hence, in alternative quantisation we imposetheboundaryconditions
lim
→0
1
d+1
I
=
0.
(A.4)Finally,for the metric we always impose the standard boundary conditions
lim
→0
2
γ
μν
=
η
μν.
(A.5)Notethat inthe alternative quantisation schemethe background profile forthe scalars,
φ
I=
α
xI, is no longer an external source providingthe explicit breakingof translations.This is the funda-mentalreasonwhymodelslike V(
X)
=
X+ . . .
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