Breakdown of hydrodynamics in a Galilean quantum Hall crystal

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Autori principali: Huang, Xiaoyang, Lucas, Andrew
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author Huang, Xiaoyang
Lucas, Andrew
author_facet Huang, Xiaoyang
Lucas, Andrew
contents We construct a nonlinear fluctuating hydrodynamic effective field theory for Galilean-invariant quantum Hall systems with spontaneously broken translational symmetry. Neglecting the role of energy conservation in a low-temperature regime, the hydrodynamic mode is a magnetophonon with quartic attenuation: $ω\sim \pm k^2-\mathrm{i} k^z$ with $z=4$. However, this linear response theory is unstable, and flows to a non-trivial dynamical universality class with $z\approx 3$. We observe this scaling in numerical simulations of many-body classical Hamiltonian dynamics, in a model of an electronic crystal in the lowest Landau level. Observing this magnetophonon decay rate in a quantum Hall crystal represents a promising setting to detect an analogue of a "fractonic dynamical universality class" in a solid-state system, e.g. using microwave impedance microscopy.
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spellingShingle Breakdown of hydrodynamics in a Galilean quantum Hall crystal
Huang, Xiaoyang
Lucas, Andrew
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Statistical Mechanics
Strongly Correlated Electrons
High Energy Physics - Theory
We construct a nonlinear fluctuating hydrodynamic effective field theory for Galilean-invariant quantum Hall systems with spontaneously broken translational symmetry. Neglecting the role of energy conservation in a low-temperature regime, the hydrodynamic mode is a magnetophonon with quartic attenuation: $ω\sim \pm k^2-\mathrm{i} k^z$ with $z=4$. However, this linear response theory is unstable, and flows to a non-trivial dynamical universality class with $z\approx 3$. We observe this scaling in numerical simulations of many-body classical Hamiltonian dynamics, in a model of an electronic crystal in the lowest Landau level. Observing this magnetophonon decay rate in a quantum Hall crystal represents a promising setting to detect an analogue of a "fractonic dynamical universality class" in a solid-state system, e.g. using microwave impedance microscopy.
title Breakdown of hydrodynamics in a Galilean quantum Hall crystal
topic Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Statistical Mechanics
Strongly Correlated Electrons
High Energy Physics - Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.12535