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Anomalous Hall viscosity at the Weyl semimetal/insulator transition

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2019-05-29 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We show that 3D Lifshitz fermions arising as the critical theory at the Weyl semimetal/insulator transition naturally develop an anomalous Hall viscosity at finite temperature. We discuss how to couple the system to non-relativistic background sources for stress-tensor and momentum currents via a form of Newton-Cartan geometry with torsion and derive the Kubo formulas for the Hall viscosities. While the Lifshitz system that arises most naturally has scaling exponent z=2z=2 we also generalize the theory for arbitrary Lifshitz scaling zz and show that, in the limit z0z \to 0, it may be given a Chern-Simons interpretation by dimensionally reducing along the anisotropic direction. The Hall viscosities are expressed in terms of zeta functions and their temperature dependence is dictated by the scaling exponent.

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@article{arxiv.1901.11403,
  title  = {Anomalous Hall viscosity at the Weyl semimetal/insulator transition},
  author = {Christian Copetti and Karl Landsteiner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.11403},
  year   = {2019}
}

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