Entropy currents from holography in hydrodynamics with charge

TL;DR

This paper develops a holographic framework to define and analyze entropy currents in charged hydrodynamics, demonstrating their geometric origins and invariance properties within the dual gravitational description.

Contribution

It extends the holographic entropy current construction to charged fluids, identifying a unique Weyl-invariant apparent horizon that defines an admissible entropy current.

Findings

Event horizon entropy current matches hydrodynamic results at first order.

A unique Weyl-invariant apparent horizon exists at second order.

Both horizon-based entropy currents coincide at first order.

Abstract

The holographic interpretation of the hydrodynamic entropy current is developed for the case of hydrodynamics with a conserved charge. This is carried out within a framework developed in earlier work, which showed how to associate entropy currents with horizons in the dual geometry. The entropy current defined by the event horizon in the dual bulk geometry is calculated. It is also shown that to second order in the gradient expansion the dual geometry possesses a unique Weyl-invariant apparent horizon which also defines an admissable entropy current. At first order both currents coincide with the result obtained on the basis of a purely hydrodynamic analysis.