Published July 24, 2024 | Version v1
Journal article

Observable signatures of Hall viscosity in lowest Landau level superfluids

  • 1. Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
  • 2. Kadanoff Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA

Description

Hall viscosity is a nondissipative viscosity occurring in systems with broken time-reversal symmetry, such as quantum Hall phases and p+ip superfluids. Despite Hall viscosity's expected ubiquity and past observations in: classical soft matter, optical, and graphene systems, it has yet to be measured experimentally in any macroscopic quantum state of matter. Toward this end, we describe the observable effects of Hall viscosity in a simple family of rotating Bose-Einstein condensates of electrically neutral bosons, in which all of the bosons condense into a single lowest Landau level (LLL) orbital. Such phases are accessible to current cold atom experiments, and we dub them LLL superfluids. We demonstrate that LLL superfluids possess a nonuniversal Hall viscosity, leading to a range of observable consequences such as rotation of vortex-antivortex dipoles and wave-vector-dependent corrections to the speed of sound. Furthermore, using a coherent state path integral approach, we present a microscopic derivation of the Landau-Ginzburg equations of a LLL superfluid, showing explicitly how Hall viscosity enters.

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1103/PhysRevB.110.024515;
arXiv
arXiv:2310.04495;
Crossref Funder ID
10.13039/100023581; 10.13039/100000001; 10.13039/100000936; 10.13039/100000015; 10.13039/100000893;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review B
Journal Volume
110
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
22 pgs.
ISSN
1550-235X

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