Noncommuting zero-noise and zero-frequency limits in particle-hole symmetric fluids
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| author | McCulloch, Ewan Vasseur, Romain Gopalakrishnan, Sarang |
| author_facet | McCulloch, Ewan Vasseur, Romain Gopalakrishnan, Sarang |
| contents | In charged fluids obeying particle-hole symmetry, such as the Dirac fluid in graphene, charge transport is diffusive despite the presence of ballistically propagating sound waves: sound waves "hydrodynamically decouple" from the slower charge fluctuations. For quasi-one-dimensional fluids, we show that this symmetry-protected charge diffusion is not smoothly connected to the normal diffusion that arises when momentum conservation is broken by noise (or static impurities). Instead, the charge diffusion constant is a discontinuous function of noise, which (in the weak-noise limit) depends only on the ratio of momentum and energy relaxation rates. In the special limit of momentum-conserving noise (e.g., spatially uniform fluctuations of the Hamiltonian), the diffusion constant diverges in the presence of noise. We describe the resulting superdiffusion in terms of coupled Burgers equations. We present a general mechanism--hydrodynamic recoupling--by which weak noise can induce singular changes in transport coefficients. Our results highlight the limits of zero-noise extrapolation for predicting dynamical quantities like diffusion constants. |
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| spellingShingle | Noncommuting zero-noise and zero-frequency limits in particle-hole symmetric fluids McCulloch, Ewan Vasseur, Romain Gopalakrishnan, Sarang Statistical Mechanics Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Quantum Gases Strongly Correlated Electrons In charged fluids obeying particle-hole symmetry, such as the Dirac fluid in graphene, charge transport is diffusive despite the presence of ballistically propagating sound waves: sound waves "hydrodynamically decouple" from the slower charge fluctuations. For quasi-one-dimensional fluids, we show that this symmetry-protected charge diffusion is not smoothly connected to the normal diffusion that arises when momentum conservation is broken by noise (or static impurities). Instead, the charge diffusion constant is a discontinuous function of noise, which (in the weak-noise limit) depends only on the ratio of momentum and energy relaxation rates. In the special limit of momentum-conserving noise (e.g., spatially uniform fluctuations of the Hamiltonian), the diffusion constant diverges in the presence of noise. We describe the resulting superdiffusion in terms of coupled Burgers equations. We present a general mechanism--hydrodynamic recoupling--by which weak noise can induce singular changes in transport coefficients. Our results highlight the limits of zero-noise extrapolation for predicting dynamical quantities like diffusion constants. |
| title | Noncommuting zero-noise and zero-frequency limits in particle-hole symmetric fluids |
| topic | Statistical Mechanics Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Quantum Gases Strongly Correlated Electrons |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02475 |