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Recent experiments have revealed that novel nonequilibrium states consistent with the hydrodynamic description of electrons are realized in ultrapure graphene, which hosts the valley degrees of freedom. Here, we formulate a theory of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-05 Ryotaro Sano , Daigo Oue , Mamoru Matsuo

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

We study the hydrodynamic flow of electrons through a smooth potential energy landscape in two dimensions, for which the electrical current is concentrated along thin channels that follow percolating equipotential contours. The width of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-24 Aaron Hui , Calvin Pozderac , Brian Skinner

Electron-electron interactions in high-mobility conductors can give rise to transport signatures resembling those described by classical hydrodynamics. Using a nanoscale scanning magnetometer, we imaged a distinctive hydrodynamic transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-02 Marius L. Palm , Chaoxin Ding , William S. Huxter , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Christian L. Degen

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

Electron transport in two-dimensional conducting materials such as graphene, with dominant electron-electron interaction, exhibits unusual vortex flow that leads to a nonlocal current-field relation (negative resistance), distinct from the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-02-22 Jonathan Mayzel , Victor Steinberg , Atul Varshney

The nonlocal response of chiral electron fluid in a semi-infinite Weyl semimetal slab with the electric current source and drain attached to its surface is studied by using the consistent hydrodynamic framework. It is found that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-24 E. V. Gorbar , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy , P. O. Sukhachov

An electric field that builds in the direction against current, known as negative nonlocal resistance, arises naturally in viscous flows and is thus often taken as a telltale of this regime. Here we predict negative resistance for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-30 Andrey Shytov , Jian Feng Kong , Gregory Falkovich , Leonid Levitov

Ultra-pure conductors may exhibit hydrodynamic transport where the collective motion of charge carriers resembles the flow of a viscous fluid. In a confined geometry (e.g., in ultra-high quality nanostructures) the electronic fluid assumes…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-02-14 P. S. Alekseev , A. P. Dmitriev , I. V. Gornyi , V. Yu. Kachorovskii , B. N. Narozhny , M. Titov

Dominating electron-electron scattering enables viscous electron flow exhibiting hydrodynamic current density patterns such as Poiseuille profiles or vortices. The viscous regime has recently been observed in graphene by non-local transport…

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

Electrons in conductors suffer frequent scatterings with defects and phonons, and the diffusive macroscopic behaviors are determined by an external electric field through Ohms law. If electrons are no longer diffusive, the Ohmic description…

In metallic samples of small enough size and sufficiently strong momentum-conserving scattering, the viscosity of the electron gas can become the dominant process governing transport. In this regime, momentum is a long-lived quantity whose…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-06-07 Thomas Scaffidi , Nabhanila Nandi , Burkhard Schmidt , Andrew P. Mackenzie , Joel E. Moore

At low temperatures, in very clean two-dimensional (2D) samples the electron mean free path for collisions with static defects and phonons becomes greater than the sample width. Under this condition, the electron transport occurs by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-15 P. S. Alekseev

In this study we consider the problem of the interface motion under the capillary-gravity and an external electric forces. The infinitely deep fluid layer is assumed to be viscous, perfectly conducting and the flow to be incompressible. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-02-20 Matthew Hunt , Denys Dutykh

Materials subjected to a magnetic field exhibit the Hall effect, a phenomenon studied and understood in fine detail. Here we report a qualitative breach of this classical behavior in electron systems with high viscosity. The viscous fluid…

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

Electron hydrodynamics is an emerging framework that describes dynamics of interacting electron systems as conventional fluids. While evidence for hydrodynamic-like transport is reported in a variety of two-dimensional materials, precise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-25 Yihang Zeng , Haoyu Guo , Olivia M. Ghosh , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Leonid S. Levitov , Cory R. Dean

Negative viscosity seems to be an impossible parameter for any thermodynamic system. But for some special boundary conditions the viscosity of a fluid has apparently become negative, like for secondary flow of a fluid or in a plasma flow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-04-01 Sreetam Bhaduri

Fluid dynamics is one of the cornerstones of modern physics and has recently found applications in the transport of electrons in solids. In most solids electron transport is dominated by extrinsic factors, such as sample geometry and…