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Hydrodynamic fluidity in condensed matter physics has been experimentally demonstrated only in a limited number of compounds due to the stringent conditions that must be met. Herein, we performed thermal and electrical transport experiments…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-02-25 Chang-woo Cho , Peipei Wang , Fangdong Tang , Sungkyun Park , Mingquan He , Rolf Lortz , Genda Gu , Qiang Li , Liyuan Zhang

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 A. N. Afanasiev , P. S. Alekseev , A. A. Greshnov , M. A. Semina

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

When continuous rotational invariance of a two-dimensional fluid is broken to the discrete, dihedral subgroup $D_6$ - the point group of an equilateral triangle - the resulting anisotropic hydrodynamics breaks both spatial-inversion and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-31 Aaron J. Friedman , 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

We examine 2D electron transport through a long narrow channel driven by an external electric field in presence of diffusive boundary scattering. At zero temperature, we derive an analytical solution of the transition from ballistic to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Philipp Heilmann , Pavlo V. Pyshkin , Björn Trauzettel

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

By means of a specific heat ($C$) and electrical resistivity ($\varrho$) study, we give evidence of a pronounced Fermi liquid (FL) behavior with sizable mass renormalization, $m^{\ast}/m = 30$, up to unusually high temperatures $\sim$70 K…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-04 A. Gauzzi , H. Moutaabbid , Y. Klein , G. Loupias , V. Hardy

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

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

In this work we consider the hydrodynamic behavior of a coupled electron-phonon fluid, focusing on electronic transport under the conditions of strong phonon drag. This regime occurs when the rate of phonon equilibration due to e.g. umklapp…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-15 Alex Levchenko , Jörg Schmalian

Using an analytically tractable kinetic model of a two dimensional Fermi liquid of electrons, we characterize the crossovers between zero sound, first sound and plasmons. For experimentally realized Fermi liquids in a hydrodynamic limit,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-04-04 Andrew Lucas , Sankar Das Sarma

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…

The hydrodynamic description of the Fermi arc surface states is proposed. In view of the strong suppression of scattering on impurities, the hydrodynamic regime for Fermi arc states should be, in principle, plausible. By using the kinetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-04-19 E. V. Gorbar , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy , P. O. Sukhachov

Electron hydrodynamics typically emerges in electron fluids with a high electron-electron collision rate. However, new experiments with thin flakes of WTe$_2$ have revealed that other momentum-conserving scattering processes can replace the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-25 Yotam Wolf , Amit Aharon-Steinberg , Binghai Yan , Tobias Holder

We calculate the viscoelasticity tensor for altermagnets and formulate the corresponding hydrodynamic equations. The anisotropy of altermagnetic Fermi surfaces allows for additional terms in the viscoelasticity tensor and is manifested in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-28 A. A. Herasymchuk , E. V. Gorbar , P. O. Sukhachov

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 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

The motion of electrons in the vast majority of conductors is diffusive, obeying Ohm's law. However, the recent discovery and growth of high-purity materials with extremely long electronic mean free paths has sparked interest in non-ohmic…

We study Coulomb drag between an active layer with a clean electron liquid and a passive layer with a pinned electron lattice in the regime of fast intralayer equilibration. Such a two-fluid system offers an experimentally realizable way to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-17 Tobias Holder