Aspects of holographic Langevin diffusion in the presence of anisotropic magnetic field

We study the holographic Langevin diffusion coefficients of a heavy quark, when traveling through a strongly coupled anisotropic plasma in the presence of magnetic field B. While previous studies have characterized Langevin diffusion coefficients in the magnetic branes model, our analysis uncovers several new features among the five coefficients in this magnetic anisotropic plasma, advancing the understanding of heavy quark dynamics in such environments. In particular, we clarified how motion velocities shape momentum broadening and its directional dependence. It is observed that the transverse Langevin diffusion coefficients depend more on the direction of motion rather than the directions of momentum diffusion at the ultra-fast limit, while an opposite conclusion is found when the moving speed is sufficiently low. For the Longitudinal Langevin diffusion coefficient, we find that motion perpendicular to B affects the Langevin coefficients stronger at any fixed velocity. We should also emphasize that all five Langevin coefficients are becoming larger with increasing velocity. We find that the universal relation κ∥>κ⊥ in the isotropic background, is broken in a different new case that a quark moving paralleled to B. This is one more particular example where the violation of the universal relation occurs for the anisotropic background. Further, we find the critical velocity of the violation will become larger with increasing B.

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Physics Letters B
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2025-10-21
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139966
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Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
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Aspects of holographic Langevin diffusion in the presence of anisotropic magnetic field

Ben-Wei Zhang, Qi Zhou
Physics Letters B
Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
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Aspects of holographic Langevin diffusion in the presence of anisotropic magnetic field

Ben-Wei Zhang, Qi Zhou
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We study the holographic Langevin diffusion coefficients of a heavy quark, when traveling through a strongly coupled anisotropic plasma in the presence of magnetic field B. While previous studies have characterized Langevin diffusion coefficients in the magnetic branes model, our analysis uncovers several new features among the five coefficients in this magnetic anisotropic plasma, advancing the understanding of heavy quark dynamics in such environments. In particular, we clarified how motion velocities shape momentum broadening and its directional dependence. It is observed that the transverse Langevin diffusion coefficients depend more on the direction of motion rather than the directions of momentum diffusion at the ultra-fast limit, while an opposite conclusion is found when the moving speed is sufficiently low. For the Longitudinal Langevin diffusion coefficient, we find that motion perpendicular to B affects the Langevin coefficients stronger at any fixed velocity. We should also emphasize that all five Langevin coefficients are becoming larger with increasing velocity. We find that the universal relation κ∥>κ⊥ in the isotropic background, is broken in a different new case that a quark moving paralleled to B. This is one more particular example where the violation of the universal relation occurs for the anisotropic background. Further, we find the critical velocity of the violation will become larger with increasing B.

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