Inflow Mechanism for Hydrodynamic Entropy.

Phys Rev Lett

Center for Quantum Mathematics and Physics (QMAP) and Department of Physics, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA.

Published: August 2018

We argue that entropy production in hydrodynamics can be understood via a superspace inflow mechanism. Our arguments are based on a recently developed formalism for constructing effective actions for Schwinger-Keldysh observables in quantum field theories. The formalism explicitly incorporates microscopic unitarity and the Kubo-Martin-Schwinger thermal periodicity conditions, by recasting them in terms of topological Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin symmetries of the effective action.

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