Abstract
Based on IBUU simulations calibrated by previous efforts of the transport model evaluation project, we have studied the specific shear viscosity $\eta/s$ of nuclear matter in the spinodal region using the Green-Kubo method. With the momentum-independent mean-field potential which reproduces reasonably well empirical nuclear matter properties and nuclear phase diagram, we have generated dynamically stable and thermalized nuclear cluster systems in a box with the periodic boundary condition. Extensive results of the $\eta/s$ at different average densities and temperatures in uniform and non-uniform systems are compared, and we found that the shear viscosity is smaller with nuclear clusters due to the enhanced correlation of the energy-momentum tensor and the stronger collision effect. The temperature dependence of the $\eta/s$ has a minimum only at low average densities of $\rho<0.3\rho_0$. The present study serves as a rigorous baseline calculation of the $\eta/s$ in nuclear systems with clusters, and helps to understand the relation between the shear viscosity and the nuclear phase diagram.
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