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We study a relativistic quantum cavity system realized by etching out from a graphene sheet by quantum transport measurements and theoretical calculations. The conductance of the graphene cavity has been measured as a function of the back…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-12 G. Q. Zhang , Xianzhang Chen , Li Lin , Hailin Peng , Zhongfan Liu , Liang Huang , N. Kang , H. Q. Xu

A proposal for a calculational program in fluid turbulence is presented. It is proposed that the fluid probability density functional has an attractor for its time-evolution, just as the dynamical system itself has. The evolution of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Edsel A. Ammons

Minute amount of long chain flexible polymer dissolved in a turbulent flow can drastically change flow properties, such as reducing the drag and enhancing mixing. One fundamental riddle is how these polymer additives interact with the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-02-02 Yi-Bao Zhang , Eberhard Bodenschatz , Haitao Xu , Heng-Dong Xi

Using standard signal processing tools, we experimentally report that intermittency of wave turbulence on the surface of a fluid occurs even when two typical large-scale coherent structures (gravity wave breakings and bursts of capillary…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-18 Eric Falcon , S. G. Roux , Claude Laroche

Based on the energy gradient method, criteria for turbulent transition are proposed for pressure driven flow and shear driven flow, respectively. For pressure driven flow, the necessary and sufficient condition for turbulent transition is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-13 Hua-Shu Dou , Boo Cheong Khoo

A kinetic model for the elasto-plastic dynamics of a flowing jammed material is proposed, which takes the form of a non-local -- Boltzmann-like -- kinetic equation for the stress distribution function. Coarse-graining this equation yields a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Lyderic Bocquet , Annie Colin , Armand Ajdari

Formulas for transverse conductance and dielectric permeability in quantum degenerate collisional plasma with arbitrary variable collision frequency in Mermin's approach are deduced. Frequency of collisions of particles depends arbitrarily…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-02-15 A. V. Latyshev , A. A. Yushkanov

We rewrite Poynting's theorem, already used in a previous publication (Treumann & Baumjohann 2017) to derive relations between the turbulent magnetic and electric power spectral densities, to make explicit where the mechanical contributions…

Space Physics · Physics 2017-12-18 R. A. Treumann , W. Baumjohann

Collective behavior is one of the most intriguing aspects of the hydrodynamic approach to electronic transport. Here we provide a consistent, unified calculation of the dispersion relations of the hydrodynamic collective modes in graphene.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-22 B. N. Narozhny , I. V. Gornyi , M. Titov

We describe a mechanism that explains the formation of hydrocarbons and hydrocarbyls from hydrogenated graphene/graphite; hard C-C bonds are weakened and broken by the synergistic effect of chemisorbed hydrogen and high temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-22 Jose I. Martinez , Jose A. Martin-Gago , Jose Cernicharo , Pedro L. de Andres

We show that the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation evolves as the gradient flow of the entropy with respect to a suitable geometry on the space of probability measures which takes the collision process into account. This gradient…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-14 Matthias Erbar

Understanding turbulence is the key to our comprehension of many natural and technological flow processes. At the heart of this phenomenon lies its intricate multi-scale nature, describing the coupling between different-sized eddies in…

Graphene hosts a unique electron system in which electron-phonon scattering is extremely weak but electron-electron collisions are sufficiently frequent to provide local equilibrium above liquid nitrogen temperature. Under these conditions,…

To answer the question whether a cascade of energy exists or not in turbulence, we propose a set of correlation functions able to test if there is an irreversible transfert of energy, step by step, from large to small structures. These…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-11-23 Christophe Josserand , Martine Le Berre , Thierry Lehner , Yves Pomeau

In this paper, the physics of flow instability and turbulent transition in shear flows is studied by analyzing the energy variation of fluid particles under the interaction of base flow with a disturbance. For the first time, a model…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-06-20 Hua-Shu Dou

We propose a quantum pump mechanism based on the particular properties of graphene, namely chirality and bipolarity. The underlying physics is the excitation of evanescent modes entering a potential barrier from one lead, while those from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-12 Pablo San-Jose , Elsa Prada , Sigmund Kohler , Henning Schomerus

Quantum oscillations in graphene is discussed. The effect of interactions are addressed by Kohn's theorem regarding de Haas-van Alphen oscillations, which states that electron-electron interactions cannot affect the oscillation frequencies…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-12-06 Pallab Goswami , Xun Jia , Sudip Chakravarty

We present a numerical and analytical study of the thermal fragmentation of a turbulent flow of interstellar hydrogen. We first present the different dynamical processes and the large range of spatial (and temporal) scales that need to be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Audit , P. Hennebelle

Recent investigations of turbulent circulation fluctuations have uncovered substantial insights into the statistical organization of flow structures and revealed unexpected geometric features of turbulent intermittency. Of particular…

A-B stacked bilayer graphene has massive electron and hole-like excitations with zero gap in the nearest-neighbor hopping approximation. In equilibrium, the quasiparticle occupation approximately follows the usual Fermi-Dirac distribution.…

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