Strongly coupled plasma with electric and magnetic charges

A number of theoretical and lattice results lead us to believe that quark-gluon plasma not too far from Tc contains not only electrically charged quasiparticles---quarks and gluons---but magnetically charged ones---monopoles and dyons---as well. Although binary systems such as charge-monopole and charge-dyon were considered in detail before in both classical and quantum settings, this is the first study of coexisting electric and magnetic particles in a many-body context. We perform a molecular dynamics study of strongly coupled plasmas with {~}1000 particles and differing fractions of magnetic charge. Correlation functions and Kubo formulas lead to transport properties such as the diffusion constant, the shear viscosity, and electric conductivity: We compare the first two with empirical data from RHIC experiments as well as with results from anti-de-Sitter space/conformal field theory correspondence. We also study a number of collective excitations in these systems.