Emergent Hall viscosity in the integer quantum Hall phases of graphene-like systems
Abstract
We explicitly distinguish Hall viscosity as defined relative to the strain field vs. relative to an emergent vielbein or metric field and discuss it for graphene-like systems. Aside from the gravitational or vielbein/metric related ``geometric'' Hall viscosity prevailing throughout the literature, a contribution proportional to the Hall conductivity, the ``electronic'' Hall viscosity, due to the emergent strain induced gauge field exists. We unify both contributions within the ``emergent'' Hall viscosity, determine it explicitly for graphene in the semimetal and Semenoff semiconducting phases, and in the latter case compare it to its non-relativistic limit. Under these circumstances two topological invariants enter the emergent Hall viscosity in the presence of translation and rotation symmetries. We employ Green function representations for the electronic Hall viscosity, quantized rather generically, and the geometric Hall viscosity, the latter being valid only under Lorentz (or Galilean) symmetry. We discuss experimental perspectives for extracting the emergent Hall viscosity.
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BibTeX
@misc{selch2026emergent,
title = {{Emergent Hall viscosity in the integer quantum Hall phases of graphene-like systems}},
author = {M. Selch and M. A. Zubkov},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2606.03932},
eprint = {2606.03932},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03932},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Emergent Hall viscosity in the integer quantum Hall phases of graphene-like systems
AU - M. Selch
AU - M. A. Zubkov
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/19
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2606.03932
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03932
AB - We explicitly distinguish Hall viscosity as defined relative to the strain field vs. relative to an emergent vielbein or metric field and discuss it for graphene-like systems. Aside from the gravitational or vielbein/metric related ``geometric'' Hall viscosity prevailing throughout the literature, a contribution proportional to the Hall conductivity, the ``electronic'' Hall viscosity, due to the emergent strain induced gauge field exists. We unify both contributions within the ``emergent'' Hall viscosity, determine it explicitly for graphene in the semimetal and Semenoff semiconducting phases, and in the latter case compare it to its non-relativistic limit. Under these circumstances two topological invariants enter the emergent Hall viscosity in the presence of translation and rotation symmetries. We employ Green function representations for the electronic Hall viscosity, quantized rather generically, and the geometric Hall viscosity, the latter being valid only under Lorentz (or Galilean) symmetry. We discuss experimental perspectives for extracting the emergent Hall viscosity.
ER -