Effective field theory of a vortex lattice in a bosonic superfluid
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Abstract
Using boson-vortex duality, we formulate a low-energy effective theory of a two-dimensional vortex lattice in a bosonic Galilean-invariant compressible superfluid. The excitation spectrum contains a gapped Kohn mode and an elliptically polarized Tkachenko mode that has quadratic dispersion relation at low momenta. External rotation breaks parity and time-reversal symmetries and gives rise to Hall responses. We extract the particle number current and stress tensor linear responses and investigate the relations between them that follow from Galilean symmetry. We argue that elementary particles and vortices do not couple to the spin connection which suggests that the Hall viscosity at zero frequency and momentum vanishes in a vortex lattice.
*Our work is supported by the Emmy Noether Programme of German Research Foundation (DFG) under grant No. MO 3013/1-1. C. H. is supported by the Ramon y Cajal fellowship RYC2012-10370, the Spanish national grant MINECO-16-FPA2015-63667-P and the Asturian grant FC-15-GRUPIN14-108. D. T. S. is supported, in part, U.S. DOE Grant No. DEFG02-13ER41958, the ARO MURI Grant No. 63834-PH-MUR, and a Simons Investigator Grant from the Simons Foundation.
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Presenters
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Sergej Moroz
- Technical University of Munich