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Lifshitz Superfluid Hydrodynamics

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-10-13 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We construct the first order hydrodynamics of quantum critical points with Lifshitz scaling and a spontaneously broken symmetry. The fluid is described by a combination of two flows, a normal component that carries entropy and a super-flow which has zero viscosity and carries no entropy. We analyze the new transport effects allowed by the lack of boost invariance and constrain them by the local second law of thermodynamics. Imposing time-reversal invariance, we find eight new parity even transport coefficients. The formulation is applicable, in general, to any superfluid/superconductor with an explicit breaking of boost symmetry, in particular to high TcT_c superconductors. We discuss possible experimental signatures.

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@article{arxiv.1402.2981,
  title  = {Lifshitz Superfluid Hydrodynamics},
  author = {Shira Chapman and Carlos Hoyos and Yaron Oz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.2981},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

18 pages, 1 figure; added comments about time reversal invariance and the choice of time direction; updated referee comments according to published version

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