Hydrodynamic Cooperons in Electron Fluids: Schwinger--Keldysh Derivation and Quantum Corrections to Magnetoresistance
Abstract
We develop a Schwinger--Keldysh effective theory for quantum-interference corrections in a two-dimensional electron system in the hydrodynamic regime. Starting from the clean hydrodynamic fixed point, we introduce a minimal random-friction disorder model that generates a finite momentum-relaxation time within the self-consistent Born approximation. The disorder-averaged theory then allows us to construct a hydrodynamic Cooperon and to compute the associated self-energy corrections to the collective modes. Conservation laws protect the density and momentum sectors, so that the leading quantum-coherence correction is forced into the spin-two stress sector. The associated stress self-energy renormalizes the shear viscosity and modifies both the Gurzhi response and its low-field magnetohydrodynamic signatures.
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@article{arxiv.2605.26226,
title = {Hydrodynamic Cooperons in Electron Fluids: Schwinger--Keldysh Derivation and Quantum Corrections to Magnetoresistance},
author = {Alberto Cortijo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.26226},
year = {2026}
}
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18 pages, 5 figures