Anomalies in superfluids and a chiral electric effect

DOI10.1007/JHEP09(2011)011zbMATH Open1301.81153arXiv1106.3576MaRDI QIDQ480623FDOQ480623

Yasha Neiman, Yaron Oz

Publication date: 8 December 2014

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We analyze the chiral transport terms in relativistic superfluid hydrodynamics. In addition to the spontaneously broken symmetry current, we consider an arbitrary number of unbroken symmetries and extend the results of arXiv:1105.3733. We suggest an interpretation of some of the new transport coefficients in terms of chiral and gravitational anomalies. In particular, we show that with unbroken gauged charges in the system, one can observe a chiral electric conductivity - a current in a perpendicular direction to the applied electric field. We present a motivated proposal for the value of the associated transport coefficient, linking it to the triangle anomaly. Along the way we present new arguments regarding the interpretation of the anomalous transport coefficients in normal fluids. We propose a natural generalization of the chiral transport terms to the case of an arbitrary number of spontaneously broken symmetry currents.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.3576

zbMATH Keywords

anomalies in field and string theoriesgauge symmetryglobal symmetriesspontaneous symmetry breaking

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Irreversible thermodynamics, including Onsager-Machlup theory (82C35) Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70) Statistical mechanics of liquids (82D15) Statistical mechanics of superfluids (82D50) Superfluids (classical aspects) (76A25)

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