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In conductors with a very small density of defects, electrons at low temperatures collide predominantly with the edges of a sample. Therefore, the ballistic regime of charge and heat transport is realized. The application of a perpendicular…

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The hydrodynamic regime of electron transport has been recently realized in conductors with ultra-low densities of defects. Although relaxation processes in two-dimensional (2D) fluids have been studied in many theoretical works, the…

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We develop a hydrodynamic description of the resistivity and magnetoresistance of an electron liquid in a smooth disorder potential. This approach is valid when the electron-electron scattering length is sufficiently short. In a broad range…

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In the context of describing electrons in solids as a fluid in the hydrodynamic regime, we consider a flow of electrons in a channel of finite width, i.e.~a Poiseuille flow. The electrons are accelerated by a constant electric field. We…

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Hall effect in high-mobility 2D mesoscopic samples with hydrodynamic electron transport is related to manifestation of non-dissipative Hall viscosity at classical magnetic fields. However, the latter can be obscured by the particular…

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Cells and other soft particles are often forced to flow in confined geometries in both laboratory and natural environments, where the elastic deformation induces an additional drag and pressure drop across the particle. In contrast with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-09 Charles Paul Moore , Hiba Belkadi , Brouna Safi , Gabriel Amselem , Charles N. Baroud

Viscous electronics is an emerging field dealing with systems in which strongly interacting electrons behave as a fluid. Electron viscous flows are governed by a nonlocal current-field relation which renders the spatial patterns of current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 Gregory Falkovich , Leonid Levitov

Recent experiments have observed hints of hydrodynamic electron flow in a number of materials, not all of which have an isotropic Fermi surface. We revisit these experiments in $\mathrm{PdCoO}_2$, a quasi-two-dimensional material whose…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-07-03 Caleb Q. Cook , Andrew Lucas

In absence of time-reversal symmetry, viscous electron flow hosts a number of interesting phenomena, of which we focus here on the Hall viscosity. Taking a step beyond the hydrodynamic definition of the Hall viscosity, we derive a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-06 Tobias Holder , Raquel Queiroz , Ady Stern

In ultra-pure materials electrons may exhibit a collective motion similar to the hydrodynamic flow of a viscous fluid, the phenomenon with far reaching consequences in a wide range of many body systems from black holes to high-temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-01 Sven Danz , Boris N. Narozhny

Theoretical and experimental studies have revealed that electrons in condensed matter can behave hydrodynamically, exhibiting fluid phenomena such as Stokes flow and vortices. Unlike classical fluids, preferred directions inside crystals…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-24 Georgios Varnavides , Adam S. Jermyn , Polina Anikeeva , Claudia Felser , Prineha Narang

In electrochemical systems, an understanding of the underlying transport processes is required to aid in their better design. This includes knowledge of possible near-electrode convective mixing that can enhance measured currents. Here, for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-15 Nakul Pande , Jeffery A. Wood , Guido Mul , Detlef Lohse , Bastian T. Mei , Dominik Krug

The ``flow'' of electric currents and heat in standard metals is diffusive with electronic motion randomized by impurities. However, for ultraclean metals, electrons can flow like water with their flow being described by the equations of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-03-28 Lars Fritz , Thomas Scaffidi

We obtain a rigorous upper bound on the resistivity $\rho$ of an electron fluid whose electronic mean free path is short compared to the scale of spatial inhomogeneities. When such a hydrodynamic electron fluid supports a non-thermal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-04-24 Andrew Lucas , Sean A. Hartnoll

We formulate a general framework to study the flow of the electron liquid in two dimensions past a random array of impenetrable obstacles in the presence of a magnetic field. We derive a linear-response formula for the resistivity tensor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-31 I. V. Gornyi , D. G. Polyakov

The pursuit for clearly identifiable signatures of viscous electron flow in the solid state systems has been a paramount task in the search of the hydrodynamic electron transport behavior. In this work, we investigate theoretically the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-14 Songci Li , Alex Levchenko

The viscous flow of electrons in a narrow channel requires both strong electron-electron interactions and no-slip boundary conditions. However, introducing obstacles within the liquid can significantly increase flow resistance and, as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-07 A. D. Levin , G. M. Gusev , V. A. Chitta , Z. D. Kvon , A. S. Jaroshevich , D. E. Utkin , D. V. Dmitriev , A. K. Bakarov

Phase transitions are characterized by a sharp change in the type of dynamics of microparticles, and their description usually requires quantum mechanics. Recently, a peculiar type of conductors was discovered in which two-dimensional (2D)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-28 A. N. Afanasiev , P. S. Alekseev , A. A. Greshnov , M. A. Semina

Vortices in electron fluids are a key indicator of electron hydrodynamics. However, a comprehensive framework linking macroscopic vorticity measurements with microscopic interactions and scattering mechanisms has been lacking. We employ…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-27 Khachatur G. Nazaryan , Leonid Levitov

Hydrodynamic electron transport in solids, governed by momentum-conserving electron-electron collisions, offers a unique framework to explore collective phenomena. Within this framework, correlated electron motion is modeled as viscous…