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Spatially resolved transport in two-dimensional quantum materials can reveal dynamics which is invisible in conventional bulk transport measurements. We predict striking patterns in spatially inhomogeneous transport just above the critical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-04-07 Koushik Ganesan , Andrew Lucas

The influence of microwave radiation (1.2-140 GHz) on resistance of high-mobility two-dimensional electron gas in GaAs quantum wells is studied. Two series of microwave-induced magnetoresistance oscillations periodic in 1/B were observed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Bykov , A. V. Goran , D. R. Islamov , A. K. Bakarov , Jing-qiao Zhang , Sergey Vitkalov

We measure the energy distribution of electrons passing through a two-dimensional electron gas using a scanning probe microscope. We present direct spatial images of coherent electron wave flow from a quantum point contact formed in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 B. J. LeRoy , A. C. Bleszynski , M. A. Topinka , R. M. Westervelt , S. E. J. Shaw , E. J. Heller , K. D. Maranowski , A. C. Gossard

GaAs-based two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) show a wealth of remarkable electronic states, and serve as the basis for fast transistors, research on electrons in nanostructures, and prototypes of quantum-computing schemes. All these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-21 M. P. Jura , M. A. Topinka , L. Urban , A. Yazdani , H. Shtrikman , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , D. Goldhaber-Gordon

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

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…

Transient magnetotransport of two-dimensional electrons with partially-inverted distribution excited by an ultrashort optical pulse is studied theoretically. The time-dependent photoconductivity is calculated for GaAs-based quantum wells by…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 O. E. Raichev , F. T. Vasko

We develop a theory of magnetooscillations in the photoconductivity of a two-dimensional electron gas observed in recent experiments. The effect is governed by a change of the electron distribution function induced by the microwave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 I. A. Dmitriev , M. G. Vavilov , I. L. Aleiner , A. D. Mirlin , D. G. Polyakov

Direct viscous mechano-electric response is demonstrated for a room-temperature ferroelectric nematic liquid, which combines large spontaneous electric polarization with 3D fluidity. The mechano-electric transduction is observed in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-05-28 Peter Medle Rupnik , Luka Cmok , Nerea Sebastian , Alenka Mertelj

We report the electronic characterization of mesoscopic Hall bar devices fabricated from coupled InAs/GaSb quantum wells sandwiched between AlSb barriers, an emerging candidate for two-dimensional topological insulators. The electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-06 Atindra Nath Pal , Susanne Mueller , Thomas Ihn , Klaus Ensslin , Thomas Tschirky , Christophe Charpentier , Werner Wegscheider

Electron-electron interactions in graphene are sufficiently strong to induce a correlated and momentum-conserving flow such that charge carriers behave similarly to the Hagen-Poiseuille flow of a classical fluid. In the current work, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-02 Wenhao Huang , Tathagata Paul , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Mickael L. Perrin , Michel Calame

Quantum thermodynamics addresses the dynamics of heat flow in quantum devices driven out of equilibrium. Although mesoscopic circuits at low temperatures provide a flexible platform to explore this dynamics, experimental studies are wanting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 F. Zanichelli , A. Veillon , C. Piquard , A. Aassime , Y. Sato , A. Cavanna , Y. Jin , J. Folk , U. Gennser , A. Anthore , F. Pierre

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

We have investigated the local magneto-transport in high-quality 2D electron systems at low carrier densities. The positive magneto-resistance in perpendicular magnetic field in the strongly insulating regime has been measured to evaluate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Ghosh , M. Pepper , H. E. Beere , D. A. Ritchie

Hydrodynamic electron flow is experimentally observed in the differential resistance of electrostatically defined wires in the two-dimensional electron gas in (Al,Ga)As heterostructures. In these experiments current heating is used to…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 M. J. M. de Jong , L. W. Molenkamp

We investigate the striking absence of strong localisation observed in mesoscopic two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) (Baenninger et al 2008 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100 1016805, Backes et al 2015 Phys. Rev. B 92 235427) even when their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 Dirk Backes , Richard Hall , Michael Pepper , Harvey Beere , David Ritchie , Vijay Narayan

Viscous electron fluids have emerged recently as a new paradigm of strongly-correlated electron transport in solids. Here we report on a direct observation of the transition to this long-sought-for state of matter in a high-mobility…

We present a theory predicting how the linear magnetotransport of a two-dimensional electron gas is modified by a passive electromagnetic cavity resonator where no real photons are injected nor created. For a cavity photon mode with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-06 Nicola Bartolo , Cristiano Ciuti

We propose a protocol to identify spatial hallmarks of viscous electron flow in graphene and other two-dimensional viscous electron fluids. We predict that the profile of the magnetic field generated by hydrodynamic electron currents…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-06 Karina A. Guerrero-Becerra , Francesco M. D. Pellegrino , Marco Polini

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-14 A. A. Grigorev , A. N. Afanasiev