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Motivated by Hall viscosity measurements in graphene sheets, we study hydrodynamic transport of electrons in a channel of finite width in external electric and magnetic fields. We consider electric charge densities varying from close to the…

Rejuvenation of hydrodynamic transport in solids provides a new window to study collective motion of electrons, where electrons behave like a viscous fluid akin to classical liquids. Experimental observations of such exotic states have not…

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The hydrodynamic flow of the chiral electron fluid in a Weyl semimetal slab of finite thickness is studied by using the consistent hydrodynamic theory. The latter includes viscous, anomalous, and vortical effects, as well as accounts for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-23 E. V. Gorbar , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy , P. O. Sukhachov

The concept of fluidic viscosity is ubiquitous in our everyday life and for it to arise the fluidic medium must necessarily form a continuum where macroscopic properties can emerge. While a powerful concept for tangible liquids,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-04 Sujatha Vijayakrishnan , Z. Berkson-Korenberg , J. Mainville , L. W. Engel , M. P. Lilly , K. W. West , L. N. Pfeiffer , G. Gervais

The last few years have seen an explosion of interest in hydrodynamic effects in interacting electron systems in ultra-pure materials. In this paper we briefly review the recent advances, both theoretical and experimental, in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 B. N. Narozhny , I. V. Gornyi , A. D. Mirlin , J. Schmalian

For over a hundred years, electron transport in conductive materials has been primarily described by the Drude model, which assumes that current flow is impeded primarily by momentum-relaxing collisions between electrons and extrinsic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-06 Aaron Hui , Brian Skinner

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

When electrons flow as a viscous fluid in anisotropic metals, the reduced symmetry can lead to exotic viscosity tensors with many additional, nonstandard components. We present a viscometry technique that can, in principle, measure the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-10-26 Caleb Q. Cook , Andrew Lucas

Dynamic structuring of water is a key player in a large class of processes underlying biochemical and technological developments today, the latter often involving electric fields. However, the anisotropic coupling between the water…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-05-29 Andreas Baer , Zoran Miličević , David M. Smith , Ana-Sunčana Smith

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…

Quantum-critical states of diverse strongly correlated systems are predicted to feature universal collision-dominated transport resembling that of viscous fluids. However, investigation of these phenomena has been hampered by the lack of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-20 Leonid Levitov , Gregory Falkovich

We consider the hydrodynamic flow of an electron fluid in a channel formed in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with no-slip boundary conditions. To generate vorticity in the fluid the flow is influenced by an array of micromagnets on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-06 Jack N. Engdahl , Aydın Cem Keser , Thomas Schmidt , Oleg P. Sushkov

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

We study the hitherto un-addressed phenomenon of Quantum Hall Effect with a magnetic and electric fields oscillating in time with resonant frequencies. This phenomenon realizes an example of heterodyne device with the magnetic field acting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-16 Takashi Oka , Leda Bucciantini

Hydrodynamics is a new paradigm of electron transport in high-mobility devices, where frequent electron collisions give rise to a collective electron flow profile. However, conventional descriptions of these flows, which are based on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-19 Nitay Ben-Shachar , Johannes Hofmann

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-12 A. V. Andreev , Steven A. Kivelson , B. Spivak

In ultra-clean 2d materials electron viscosity is as important as Ohmic dissipation and electron transport exhibits hydrodynamic features. Using a simple framework of Brinkman equations we find that hydrodynamic electron flows exhibit a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Jarosław Pawłowski , Piotr Surówka , Konstantin Zarembo

The unsteady electrorotation of a drop of a viscous weakly conducting polarizable liquid suspended in another viscous weakly conducting polarizable liquid immiscible with the former in an applied constant uniform electric field is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-10-11 Alexander N. Tyatyushkin

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

We consider hydrodynamic electron transport in the Hall-bar geometry. The theory is developed for systems with non-Galilean-invariant electron liquids. We show that inhomogeneity of the electron density induced by long-range disorder and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-27 Songci Li , A. V. Andreev , Alex Levchenko