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L\'evy flights and hydrodynamic superdiffusion on the Dirac cone of Graphene

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2019-11-18 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We show that hydrodynamic collision processes of graphene at the neutrality point can be described in terms of a Fokker-Planck equation with fractional derivative, corresponding to a L\'evy flight in momentum space. Thus, electron-electron collisions give rise to frequent small-angle scattering processes that are interrupted by rare large-angle events. The latter give rise to superdiffusive dynamics of collective excitations. We argue that such superdiffusive dynamics is of more general importance to the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of quantum-critical systems.

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@article{arxiv.1906.07123,
  title  = {L\'evy flights and hydrodynamic superdiffusion on the Dirac cone of Graphene},
  author = {Egor I. Kiselev and Jörg Schmalian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.07123},
  year   = {2019}
}