Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: Hall viscosity on a lattice depends on how strain changes microscopic hopping amplitudes. For a specified Gaussian envelope, bond-length derivatives close on the undeformed hopping, expressing the stress as an embedded momentum Hessian and relating the viscosity to higher-order band geometry. In the Kapit--Mueller parent family at rational flux, we show that the stress response equals the strain curvature of the sampled-LLL Gram matrix. The density-normalized viscosity approaches the continuum value 1/4, with an exponentially small sampling correction at finite flux. By contrast, for a straight-bond Peierls source, a low-frequency mass, and a fixed-envelope susceptibility, the viscosity--conductivity comparison exhibits an algebraic deviation, whose leading coefficient follows from a weak-field expansion.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Language: English
Subfield: Condensed Matter Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7162517713
