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Non-Gaussian diffusive fluctuations in Dirac fluids

Statistical Mechanics 2024-12-06 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Strongly Correlated Electrons Quantum Physics

Abstract

Dirac fluids - interacting systems obeying particle-hole symmetry and Lorentz invariance - are among the simplest hydrodynamic systems; they have also been studied as effective descriptions of transport in strongly interacting Dirac semimetals. Direct experimental signatures of the Dirac fluid are elusive, as its charge transport is diffusive as in conventional metals. In this paper we point out a striking consequence of fluctuating relativistic hydrodynamics: the full counting statistics (FCS) of charge transport is highly non-gaussian. We predict the exact asymptotic form of the FCS, which generalizes a result previously derived for certain interacting integrable systems. A consequence is that, starting from quasi-one dimensional nonequilibrium initial conditions, charge noise in the hydrodynamic regime is parametrically enhanced relative to that in conventional diffusive metals.

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@article{arxiv.2401.05494,
  title  = {Non-Gaussian diffusive fluctuations in Dirac fluids},
  author = {Sarang Gopalakrishnan and Ewan McCulloch and Romain Vasseur},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.05494},
  year   = {2024}
}

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5 pages, 2 figures

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