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Recent advances in materials science have made it possible to achieve conditions under which electrons in metals start behaving as highly viscous fluids, "thicker than honey", and exhibit fascinating hydrodynamic effects. In this short…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-02 Marco Polini , Andre K Geim

We develop a theory of magnetoresistance of two-dimensional electron systems in a smooth disorder potential in the hydrodynamic regime. Our theory applies to two-dimensional semiconductor structures with strongly correlated carriers when…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-22 Alex Levchenko , Hong-Yi Xie , A. V. Andreev

Hall viscosity is a non-dissipative response function describing momentum transport in two-dimensional systems with broken parity. It is quantized in the quantum Hall regime, and contains information about the topological order of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-12-06 Luca V. Delacretaz , Andrey Gromov

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

In high-quality solid-state systems at low temperatures, the hydrodynamic or the ballistic regimes of heat and charge transport are realized in the electron and the phonon systems. In these regimes, the thermal and the electric conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 P. S. Alekseev , M. A. Semina

Materials with strongly-correlated electrons exhibit interesting phenomena such as metal-insulator transitions and high-temperature superconductivity. In stark contrast to ordinary metals, electron transport in these materials is thought to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-11-19 J. Gooth , F. Menges , C. Shekhar , V. Süß , N. Kumar , Y. Sun , U. Drechsler , R. Zierold , C. Felser , B. Gotsmann

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…

We report non-local electrical measurements in a mesoscopic size two-dimensional (2D) electron gas in a GaAs quantum well in a hydrodynamic regime. Viscous electric flow is expected to be dominant when electron-electron collisions occur…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-16 A. D. Levin , G. M. Gusev , E. V. Levinson , Z. D. Kvon , A. K. Bakarov

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

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

Hydrodynamic transport effectively describes the collective dynamics of fluids with well-defined thermodynamic quantities. With enhanced electron-electron interactions at elevated temperatures, the collective behavior of electrons in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-25 Artem Talanov , Jonah Waissman , Aaron Hui , Brian Skinner , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Philip Kim

We examine nonlinear transport in a viscous two-dimensional electron fluid within narrow GaAs channels. The differential magnetoresistance shows nonmonotonic behavior, a signature of electron pairing in the hydrodynamic regime. Theoretical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 A. D. Levin , G. M. Gusev , A. K. Bakarov

In this work we study magnetotransport properties in electronic double layers of strongly correlated electron liquids. For sufficiently clean high-mobility samples, the high-temperature regime of transport in these systems can be described…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-11 S. S. Apostolov , D. A. Pesin , A. Levchenko

Electron spin transport in a disordered metal is theoretically studied from the hydrodynamic viewpoint focusing on the role of electron vorticity. The spin-resolved momentum flux density of electrons is calculated taking account of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 Gen Tatara

We investigate the transition between elastic and viscous regimes for time-reversal broken Weyl semimetals. In these materials, Hall transport occurs through two parallel channels: the Fermi sea and the Fermi surface. The Fermi sea part…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Yonatan Messica , Alex Levchenko , Dmitri B. Gutman

The hydrodynamic regime of charge transport has been recently realized in high-quality conductors. In the hydrodynamic as well as in the Ohmic regimes the main part of the Hall resistance of a long sample is determined by the balance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-15 A. N. Afanasiev , P. S. Alekseev , A. A. Danilenko , A. P. Dmitriev , A. A. Greshnov , M. A. Semina

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

In sufficiently clean metals, it is possible for electrons to collectively flow as a viscous fluid at finite temperature. These viscous effects have been predicted to give a notable magnetoresistance, but whether the magnetoresistance is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-29 Ipsita Mandal , Andrew Lucas

In novel ultra-pure materials electrons can form a viscous fluid, which is fundamentally different by its dynamics from the electron gas in ordinary conductors with significant density of defects. The shape of the non-stationary flow of…

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

We introduce a kind of electromagnetism, which we call viscoelastic-electromagnetism, to investigate viscoelastic transport phenomena. It is shown that Cartan's formalism of general relativity is essential for viscoelastic theory, and then…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-21 Yoshimasa Hidaka , Yuji Hirono , Taro Kimura , Yuki Minami