One-loop Kubo estimations of the shear and bulk viscous coefficients for hot and magnetized bosonic and fermionic systems

The expressions of the shear viscosity and the bulk viscosity components in the presence of an arbitrary external magnetic field for a system of hot charged scalar bosons (spin 0) as well as for a system of hot charged Dirac fermions (spin 1/2) have been derived by employing the one-loop Kubo formalism. This is done by explicitly evaluating the thermomagnetic spectral functions of the energy-momentum tensors using the real time formalism of finite temperature field theory and the Schwinger proper time formalism. In the present work, a rich quantum field theoretical structure in the expressions of the viscous coefficients in nonzero magnetic field are found, which are different from their respective expressions obtained earlier via kinetic-theory-based calculations; though, in the absence of a magnetic field, the one-loop Kubo and the kinetic-theory-based expressions for the viscosities are known to be identical. We have identified that Kubo and kinetic-theory-based results of viscosity components follow a similar kind of temperature and magnetic field dependency. The relaxation time and the synchrotron frequency in the kinetic theory formalism are realized to be connected, respectively, with the thermal width of propagator and the transitions among the Landau levels of the charged particles in the Kubo formalism. We believe that the connection of the latter quantities is quite new and probably the present work is the first time addressing this interpretation along with the new expressions of viscosity components, not seen in existing works.

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The study derives the expressions of shear and bulk viscosities for hot charged scalar bosons and Dirac fermions in the presence of an external magnetic field using the one-loop Kubo formalism. It finds a rich quantum field theoretical structure in the viscous coefficients' equations under nonzero magnetic field, which differ from previous kinetic-theory-based calculations. However, in the absence of magnetic field, the results from one-loop Kubo and kinetic-theory-based expressions for viscosities are identical.