Fluids in which both time reversal and parity are broken can display a dissipationless viscosity that is odd under each of these symmetries. Here, we show how this odd viscosity has a dramatic effect on topological sound waves in fluids, including the number and spatial profile of topological edge modes. Odd viscosity provides a short-distance cutoff that allows us to define a bulk topological invariant on a compact momentum space. As the sign of odd viscosity changes, a topological phase transition occurs without closing the bulk gap. Instead, at the transition point, the topological invariant becomes ill defined because momentum space cannot be compactified. This mechanism is unique to continuum models and can describe fluids ranging from electronic to chiral active systems.
Topological Waves in Fluids with Odd Viscosity.
A. Souslov,K. Dasbiswas,Michel Fruchart,Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan,V. Vitelli
Published 2018 in Physical Review Letters
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2018
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Physical Review Letters
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2018-02-27
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Medicine, Physics
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