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From Non-interacting to Interacting Picture of Thermodynamics and Transport Coefficients for Quark Gluon Plasma

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Pith's one-line read Temperature-dependent thermal width reduces the shear viscosity-to-entropy ratio of quark-gluon plasma.

desk verdict An honest quasi-particle fitting paper whose only new physical claim, the thermal-width reduction of eta/s, rests on separating tau from Gamma_c and on an unexamined Breit-Wigner assumption. read the letter →

arxiv 1908.04330 v1 pith:FPC6LW3S submitted 2019-08-12 hep-ph nucl-th

Sarthak Satapathy , Souvik Paul , Ankit Anand , Ranjesh Kumar , Sabyasachi Ghosh This is my paper · ORCID
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keywords quarkgluonplasmashearviscosityentropydensityquasi-particlemodelthermalwidthlatticeQCDrelaxationtimeapproximationelectricalconductivity
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The reading

The paper tries to show that QCD interaction, encoded in a temperature-dependent thermal width fitted to lattice QCD entropy density, lowers the shear viscosity-to-entropy ratio of quark-gluon plasma below its non-interacting value. It builds three simplified quasi-particle pictures: a temperature-dependent degeneracy factor, an effective fugacity, and a Breit-Wigner thermal width, each tuned to reproduce the same lattice entropy data. Only the thermal-width picture changes the ratio; the other two parametrizations cancel out in the ratio and leave it identical to the non-interacting case. If correct, this identifies the thermal width as an interaction effect that pushes QGP toward the nearly perfect fluid behavior inferred from heavy-ion collisions.

What carries the argument

The carrying object is the Breit-Wigner spectral function $\rho(M) = \frac{1}{\pi}\frac{\Gamma_c}{\Gamma_c^2 + (M-M_0)^2}$, which replaces the delta function $\delta(M-M_0)$ in the energy density, pressure, and then in the relaxation-time-approximation integrals for shear viscosity and electrical conductivity. A single $\Gamma_c(T)$ parameter, constrained by the lattice entropy density, controls both the thermodynamic and the transport phase space; the transport integrals are Eqs. (22) and (23), where the spectral function is integrated over off-shell mass. The paper also uses the equivalence of the relaxation-time approximation and one-loop Kubo expressions for $\eta$ and $\sigma$ to justify adopting the same transport formulas.

What would settle it

Compute $\eta/s$ using a thermal width extracted from a different lattice thermodynamic quantity, for example the interaction measure or a quark-number susceptibility, instead of the entropy density; if the reduction below the non-interacting $\eta/s$ disappears, the central claim is refuted. Alternatively, a direct lattice QCD calculation of the shear viscosity spectral function showing no corresponding suppression at the same temperatures would rule out the mechanism.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

The central claim is that replacing the delta-function mass profiles of quarks and gluons by a Breit-Wigner spectral function with a common, temperature-dependent width $\Gamma_c(T)$, fixed by fitting $s(T)$ from lattice QCD, produces a clear reduction of $\eta/s$ relative to the non-interacting case. In the same quasi-particle setup, temperature-dependent degeneracy factors and effective fugacity also reproduce the entropy density but leave $\eta/s$ unchanged, because their modification appears identically in both $\eta$ and $s$ and cancels. The paper therefore concludes that interaction can have a role in reducing the shear viscosity to entropy density ratio, and that the collisional time $\tau_c = 1/\Gamma_c(T)$ extracted from thermodynamics is comparable in magnitude to the relaxation time needed to reach the KSS bound near and above the transition temperature.

Load-bearing premise

The result assumes that a single broadened mass distribution, with its width fixed only by matching the measured entropy density, also controls the dissipative phase space in the transport calculation; if the transport-relevant width is different, the predicted drop in the shear-viscosity-to-entropy ratio does not follow.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • The reduction in $\eta/s$ appears only in the thermal-width parametrization, while the degeneracy-factor and fugacity models leave $\eta/s$ unchanged because their interaction factors cancel between viscosity and entropy density.
  • Electrical conductivity also decreases in all three interacting pictures, with the thermal-width version giving the largest quantitative change.
  • Imposing $\eta/s = 1/(4\pi)$ yields a relaxation time $\tau(T)$ whose magnitude is comparable to $\tau_c(T) = 1/\Gamma_c(T)$ near and above the transition temperature, suggesting the thermodynamic and dissipative time scales roughly agree there.
  • At high temperature $\Gamma_c(T)$ saturates near 0.5 GeV, while in the hadronic temperature range it decreases with temperature, so the interaction-driven reduction weakens as temperature rises.
  • Because $\Gamma_c(T)$ enters both the thermodynamic and transport integrals, the entropy-density fit alone fixes the transport phase space, making the model's predictions for $\eta/s$ and $\sigma$ fully determined once the lattice data are reproduced.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same $\Gamma_c(T)$ could be tested against other transport coefficients, such as bulk viscosity or charge diffusion, to see whether one thermodynamic width consistently controls all dissipative responses.
  • The cancellation in the degeneracy-factor and fugacity models means that matching the entropy density alone cannot determine $\eta/s$; the shape of the spectral function, not just the overall reduction in phase space, is what matters.
  • A sharper test would extract $\Gamma_c(T)$ from a different lattice observable, such as a quark-number susceptibility or spatial correlator, and check whether the predicted $\eta/s$ reduction persists when the width is fixed independently.
  • If the mechanism holds, experimental constraints on $\eta/s$ near the transition temperature could indirectly constrain the off-shell width of quarks and gluons, linking heavy-ion data to lattice thermodynamics.
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Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

3 major / 4 minor

Summary. The manuscript constructs three quasi-particle models for the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), in which the QCD interaction is encoded by a temperature-dependent degeneracy factor g(T), an effective fugacity Z(T), or a common thermal width Γ_c(T), each fitted to the lattice QCD entropy density. Using relaxation time approximation expressions for shear viscosity and electrical conductivity, the authors show that the g(T) and Z(T) models leave the ratio η/s unchanged, while the thermal-width model reduces η/s, leading them to conclude that interaction can play a role in making the QGP a nearly perfect fluid.

Significance. If the central claim were established, it would offer a simple parametric explanation for the smallness of η/s in the QGP, and the three-way comparison of thermodynamic models is pedagogically useful. The paper is transparent in presenting the fitted formulas and the transport integrals. However, the main conclusion is not robust: it depends on treating the relaxation time as independent of the thermal width, on the assumed spectral shape, and on the consistency of the fugacity model. The paper provides no error estimates or comparison with existing viscosity calculations, so the significance is limited unless the modeling assumptions are justified.

major comments (3)
  1. [Sec. 3, Fig. 5(a) and Sec. 5.2, Eq. (36)] The claimed reduction of η/s in the thermal-width model is computed for fixed values of the relaxation time τ (1 and 10 fm) that are not tied to Γ_c(T). In the Kubo derivation of Sec. 5.2, the width Γ in the propagator is identified with 1/τ, so if the interaction is represented by Γ_c, the relaxation time should be related to Γ_c. Comparing η/s at the same arbitrary τ between Γ_c=0 and Γ_c(T) is not a controlled physical comparison; setting τ=τ_c=1/Γ_c could substantially alter or remove the reduction. The authors should either impose τ=τ_c or provide a specific relation between τ and Γ_c and recompute Fig. 5(a).
  2. [Sec. 2.3, Eq. (15) and Sec. 3, Eqs. (22)-(23)] The spectral function is a single Breit-Wigner with a common width Γ_c for quarks and gluons, fitted only to the LQCD entropy density through Eq. (14). The entropy integral weights ρ(M) with a thermodynamic kernel, while the transport integrals weight it with p^4/(p^2+M^2) and p^2/(p^2+M^2). A fit to s(T) does not constrain these transport-weighted moments, so the transport-relevant width is not determined by the LQCD data. The reduction of η/s is therefore an artifact of the assumed Lorentzian ansatz rather than a consequence of the interaction encoded in the entropy density.
  3. [Sec. 2.2, Eq. (11) and Sec. 3] The statement that the Z(T) model yields exactly the same η/s as the non-interacting case is not generally correct. The distribution f = 1/(Z^{-1} e^{βE} + 1) corresponds to a non-zero effective chemical potential μ = T ln Z, and the correct entropy density in this case is s = (ε+P-μn)/T, not s = (ε+P)/T used in Eq. (4). With the correct s, η/s depends on Z. The authors should verify the cancellation numerically with the correct entropy functional; if it does not cancel, the comparison of the three models in Fig. 5(a) needs to be revised.
minor comments (4)
  1. [Sec. 2.3, Fig. 3(a)] The LQCD data points are shown without error bars, and the fitted Γ_c(T) has no uncertainty estimate. Adding error bars and propagating them to η/s would help assess whether the reduction is statistically significant.
  2. [Abstract and Sec. 1] The abstract contains a missing space after a period ('data.Using that interaction picture'), and the phrasing 'interaction might have some role when we consider temperature dependent thermal width' is vague; the authors should clarify what specific role is claimed.
  3. [Sec. 3] The paper does not compare the computed η/s with any experimental or other theoretical estimates, which would help calibrate the model and place the reduction in context.
  4. [References] Several references are incomplete or have typos (e.g., Ref. [37] lacks journal details, and Ref. [39] lists 'Eur. J. Phys.' instead of 'Eur. Phys. J.'); these should be corrected.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: the thermal-width transport result follows from the model assumptions and fitted parameters, but it is not identical to the fit by construction.

full rationale

The paper fits the parameters g(T), Z(T), and Γc(T) to the external LQCD entropy density (Eqs. 8, 12, 18) and then uses those fitted functions inside the RTA transport integrals (Eqs. 19–23). This is a model extrapolation, not a circular reduction: the transport integrals weight the spectral function with a different kinematic kernel (e.g. p^4/(p^2+M^2) for shear viscosity) than the thermodynamic kernel used in the entropy fit, so η/s is not equal to the fitted entropy by construction. The paper explicitly observes that for g(T) and Z(T) the interaction factor cancels in η/s, while for Γc(T) it does not; that distinction is a nontrivial consequence of the chosen spectral model rather than a restatement of the fit. The Kubo derivation in Sec. 5.2 identifies Γ = 1/τ in the propagator, whereas the main text treats τ as a free parameter distinct from τc = 1/Γc; this is an internal-consistency and underdetermination concern, not a circularity. The central claim is also not supported solely by self-citation: the LQCD entropy data are external, and the model is openly fitted to them. No load-bearing step reduces to its own input by definition. The physical robustness of the η/s reduction may be questionable because it depends on the assumed Breit-Wigner shape and on the treatment of τ, but that is a modeling or validation issue, not circular reasoning. Therefore no circular step can be exhibited, and the circularity score is 0.

Assumptions & free parameters 6 free parameters · 6 assumptions · 0 invented entities

Every interaction ingredient (g(T), Z(T), Gamma_c(T)) is obtained by fitting the same LQCD entropy density, so the transport coefficients are model outputs of the fit rather than independent predictions. The only additional free knob is the relaxation time tau.

free parameters (6)
  • g(T) Set-1 (Eq. 8) = a0=0.793, a1=0.687, a2=16.284, a3=0.170, a4=0.560
    Sigmoid fitted to LQCD entropy density; used to rescale degeneracies in s, eta, sigma.
  • g(T) Set-2 (Eq. 9) = b0=0.793, b1=0.687, b2=0.170, b3=16.284
    Alternative sigmoid with high-temperature limit g=1; fitted to the same entropy data.
  • Z(T) Set-1 (Eq. 12) = a0=0.792535, a1=0.686132, a2=16.2834, a3=0.170, a4=0.56037
    Effective fugacity fitted to LQCD entropy density, following Refs [20-22].
  • Z(T) Set-2 (Eq. 13) = b0=0.138935, b1=1.445, b2=0.170, b3=-0.77362
    Effective fugacity with high-temperature limit Z=1; fitted to the same entropy data.
  • Gamma_c(T) (Eq. 18) = a0=6.76802, a1=88.6265, a2=-37.3715, a3=0.170, a4=14.0653
    Thermal width fitted to LQCD entropy density; used in Breit-Wigner spectral functions.
  • Relaxation time tau = 1 fm, 10 fm, or tuned to eta/s=1/(4 pi)
    Free parameter in RTA transport expressions; the eta/s results and the comparison with tau_c depend on its value.
assumptions (6)
  • standard math Ideal-gas thermodynamic relations (epsilon, P, s=(epsilon+P)/T) with zero chemical potential.
    Used in Sec. 2 to define the non-interacting baseline and to extract s from fitted epsilon and P.
  • domain assumption The LQCD entropy density data of Refs [44,45] are correct benchmarks.
    All fitted functions g(T), Z(T), Gamma_c(T) are tuned to reproduce this data.
  • domain assumption Effective fugacity in the thermal distribution represents QCD interaction, decoupled from chemical potential.
    Introduced in Sec. 2.2 Eq. (11), following Refs [20-22].
  • ad hoc to paper A single Breit-Wigner spectral function with common Gamma_c(T) for quarks and gluons describes the interacting medium.
    Eq. (15) replaces delta functions; Gamma_c(T) is fit to entropy density.
  • domain assumption Relaxation time approximation with one species-independent tau applies to both shear viscosity and electrical conductivity.
    Stated in Sec. 3: 'for simplicity we consider that all of them are same'; transport expressions Eqs. (19),(20) use tau.
  • ad hoc to paper The same fitted temperature dependent factors apply in transport integrals.
    Sec. 3 multiplies degeneracies by g(T), uses Z(T) in distributions, and uses Gamma_c(T) in spectral functions; no independent justification is given.

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We have attempted to build first some simplified model to map the interaction of quarks and gluons, which can be contained by their thermodynamical quantity like entropy density, obtained from calculation of lattice quantum chromo dynamics (LQCD). With respect to entropy density of the standard non-interacting massless quark gluon plasma (QGP), its interacting values from LQCD simulation are reduced as we go from higher to lower temperature through the cross-over of quark-hadron phase transition. By parameterizing increasing degeneracy factor or increasing interaction-fugacity or decreasing thermal width of quarks and gluons with temperature, we have matched LQCD data.Using that interaction picture, shear viscosity and electrical conductivity are calculated. For getting nearly perfect fluid nature of QGP, interaction might have some role when we consider temperature dependent thermal width.

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Figure 1. (a) Temperature dependence degeneracy factors [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. (a) Temperature dependence fugacity Z(T ) parametrization curves - Set-1 (solid line), Set-2 (dash line) and LQCD extracted points (stars). (b) Their corresponding s/T 3 plots, where straight horizontal dotted line indicates SB limits of s/T 3 . After knowing ǫ, P, s can be obtained from Eq. (4). Keeping Z as tuning parameter, we have matched the LQCD data [44, 45] of s and we get a parametrized form Z(T ) = a0 − a1… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. (a) Temperature dependence thermal width Γ [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Temperature dependent of (a) η/(τT 4 ), (b) σ/(τT 2 ) are plotted by using tem￾perature dependent degeneracy factor g(T ) (dash line), fugacity Z(T ) (dash-dotted line) and thermal width Γc(T ) (solid line). Horizontal dotted lines indicate corresponding non￾interactin…
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: (a) η/s vs T for non-interacting (solid line) and interacting (dash line) cases by considering Γc = 0 and Γc(T ). Curves are plotted for plotted for two values of relaxation time. (b) By imposing η/s = 1/(4π), τ(T ) has been found for non-interacting or Γc = 0 (dotted …

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