Strongly coupled $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills plasma on the Coulomb branch II: Transport coefficients and hard probe parameters

Abstract

We study $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory on the Coulomb branch (cSYM) by using its Type IIB supergravity dual. We compute the transport coefficients, and hard probe parameters of $\mathcal{N}=4$ cSYM at finite temperature $T$. We use the rotating black 3-brane solution of Type IIB supergravity with a single non-zero rotation parameter $r_0$ after analytically continuing $r_0\to -i{r}_0$, and in an ensemble where the Hawking temperature $T$ and a scalar condensate $<\mathcal{O}>\sim r_0^4$ are held fixed. We find that the bulk viscosity to entropy density ratio of the large black hole branch decreases with temperature and has a maxima around the critical temperature $T_c$ while, for the small black hole branch, it increases with temperature. The other transport coefficients and parameters of hard probes, such as the conductivity, jet quenching parameter, drag force, and momentum diffusion coefficients of the large black hole branch increase with temperature and asymptote to their conformal value while, for the small black hole branch, they decrease with temperature.

Comments: 7 pages, 6 figures; title changed