Dissipationless Phonon Hall Viscosity

Details Dissipationless Phonon Hall Viscosity Dissipationless Phonon Hall Viscosity

2011-09-26

arxiv.org/abs/1109.5648v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

14 pages

Scientific paper

We study the acoustic phonon response of crystals hosting a gapped time-reversal symmetry breaking electronic state. The phonon effective action can in general acquire a dissipationless "Hall" viscosity, which is determined by the adiabatic Berry curvature of the electron wave function. This Hall viscosity endows the system with a characteristic frequency, \omega_v; for acoustic phonons of frequency \omega, it shifts the phonon spectrum by an amount of order (\omega/\omega_v)^2 and it mixes the longitudinal and transverse acoustic phonons with a relative amplitude ratio of \omega/\omega_v and with a phase shift of +/- \pi/2, to lowest order in \omega/\omega_v. We study several examples, including the integer quantum Hall states, the quantum anomalous Hall state in Hg_{1-y}Mn_{y}Te quantum wells, and a mean-field model for p_x + i p_y superconductors. We discuss situations in which the acoustic phonon response is directly related to the gravitational response, for which striking predictions have been made. When the electron-phonon system is viewed as a whole, this provides an example where measurements of Goldstone modes may serve as a probe of adiabatic curvature of the wave function of the gapped sector of a system.

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