Shear Viscosity in a Non-Fermi Liquid Phase of a Quadratic Semimetal

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We study finite temperature transport in the Luttinger-Abrikosov-Beneslavskii phase -- an interacting, scale invariant, non-Fermi liquid phase found in quadratic semimetals. We develop a kinetic equation formalism to describe the d.c. transport properties, which are dominated by collisions, and compute the shear viscosity η. The ratio of shear viscosity to entropy density η/s is a measure of the strength of interaction between the excitations of a quantum fluid. As a consequence of the quantum critical nature of the system, η/ s is a universal number and we find it to be consistent with a bound proposed from gauge-gravity duality.