Theory of Spinful Relativistic Superfluids

Abstract

We construct an effective field theory description of relativistic superfluids with nonzero angular momentum density. At first order in the derivative expansion, the effective action contains a term with a quantized coefficient, which encodes the Berry phase for the angular momentum of the superfluid condensate. From this single term we derive a number of physical effects, including the relativistic Mermin-Ho relation, an anomalous Ettingshausen effect (exchangeable for an anomalous Hall effect), and an anomalous Hall viscosity.

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