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Gauge theory for topological waves in continuum fluids with odd viscosity
by Keisuke Fujii, Yuto Ashida
Submission summary
| Authors (as registered SciPost users): | Keisuke Fujii |
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| Preprint Link: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.02958v1 (pdf) |
| Date submitted: | 2024-11-06 05:48 |
| Submitted by: | Fujii, Keisuke |
| Submitted to: | SciPost Physics |
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| Academic field: | Physics |
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| Approach: | Theoretical |
Abstract
We consider two-dimensional continuum fluids with odd viscosity under a chiral body force. The chiral body force makes the low-energy excitation spectrum of the fluids gapped, and the odd viscosity allows us to introduce the first Chern number of each energy band in the fluids. Employing a mapping between hydrodynamic variables and U(1) gauge-field strengths, we derive a U(1) gauge theory for topologically nontrivial waves. The resulting U(1) gauge theory is given by the Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory with an additional term associated with odd viscosity. We then solve the equations of motion for the gauge fields concretely in the presence of the boundary and find edge-mode solutions. We finally discuss the fate of bulk-boundary correspondence (BBC) in the context of continuum systems.
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