Rainbow Nambu-Goldstone Modes under a Shear Flow
Yuki Minami, Hiroyoshi Nakano, Yoshimasa Hidaka
We study an $\mathrm{O}(N)$ scalar model under shear flow and its Nambu-Goldstone modes associated with spontaneous symmetry breaking $\mathrm{O}(N)\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\mathrm{O}(N\ensuremath{-}1)$. We find that the Nambu-Goldstone mode splits into an infinite number of gapless modes, which we call the rainbow Nambu-Goldstone modes. They have different group velocities and the fractional dispersion relation $\ensuremath{\omega}\ensuremath{\sim}{k}_{1}^{2/3}$, where ${k}_{1}$ is the wave number along the flow. Such behaviors do not have counterparts in an equilibrium state.
arXiv:2009.10357•Physical Review Letters•Apr 7, 2021•6 citations