Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Correlators at finite density and temperature encode important information about a physical system, such as transport and causality. For a massive gas of particles in the relaxation time approximation of kinetic theory, we provide complete analytic results for all first order transport coefficients, including thermoelectric coefficients. We demonstrate the first complete picture of the complex structure of the correlators as a function of mass, providing an interpretation in terms of the causal structure of light cones. We provide a simple criterion to extract the effective light cone velocity from the cut of the retarded correlator.
DOI: 10.1103/v4tj-fj5k
Authors: Matej Bajec, Alexander Soloviev
Institution: University of Ljubljana
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4414083103