Hydrodynamics of a superfluid smectic

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/ABE598MaRDI QIDQ4992293zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Johannes Hofmann, Wilhelm Zwerger

Publication date 8 June 2021

Published in Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.06569

zbMATH Keywords

Bose-Einstein condensationcold atoms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Superfluids (classical aspects) (76A25) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) Statistical mechanics of superfluids (82D50)

Abstract: We determine the hydrodynamic modes of the superfluid analog of a smectic-A phase in liquid crystals, i.e., a state in which both gauge invariance and translational invariance along a single direction are spontaneously broken. Such a superfluid smectic provides an idealized description of the incommensurate supersolid state realized in Bose-Einstein condensates with strong dipolar interactions as well as of the stripe phase in Bose gases with spin-orbit coupling. We show that the presence of a finite normal fluid density in the ground state of these systems gives rise to a well-defined second-sound type mode even at zero temperature. It replaces the diffusive permeation mode of a normal smectic phase and is directly connected with the classic description of supersolids by Andreev and Lifshitz in terms of a propagating defect mode. An analytic expression is derived for the two sound velocities that appear in the longitudinal excitation spectrum. It only depends on the low-energy parameters associated with the two independent broken symmetries, which are the effective layer compression modulus and the superfluid fraction.

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