Lifshitz Hydrodynamics
High Energy Physics - Theory
2015-06-15 v3 Statistical Mechanics
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Abstract
We construct the hydrodynamics of quantum critical points with Lifshitz scaling. There are new dissipative effects allowed by the lack of boost invariance. The formulation is applicable, in general, to any fluid with an explicit breaking of boost symmetry. We use a Drude model of a strange metal to study the physical effects of the new transport coefficient. It can be measured using electric fields with non-zero gradients, or via the heat production when an external force is turned on. Scaling arguments fix the resistivity to be linear in the temperature.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1304.7481,
title = {Lifshitz Hydrodynamics},
author = {Carlos Hoyos and Bom Soo Kim and Yaron Oz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.7481},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
11 pages, 1 figure, acceleration term corrected