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In interaction-dominated two-dimensional electron gases at intermediate temperatures, electron transport is not diffusive as in the conventional Drude picture but instead hydrodynamic. The relevant transport coefficient in this regime is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-18 Ulf Gran , Eric Nilsson , Johannes Hofmann

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…

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

Considering theoretically the transition between hydrodynamic and ballistic regimes in 2D semiconductors, we show that electrons in high-mobility 2D GaAs are by far the best system for the direct observation of collective hydrodynamic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-11 Seongjin Ahn , Sankar Das Sarma

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

Modern two dimensional conductors with low defect densities and strong electron-electron scattering are favorable platforms for formation of a viscous fluid of conduction electrons. Electric properties of these systems are determined by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 A. N. Afanasiev , P. S. Alekseev

Fermi liquid theory has been a foundation in understanding the electronic properties of materials. For weakly interacting two-dimensional (2D) electron or hole systems, electron-electron interactions are known to introduce quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-30 Arvind Shankar Kumar , Chieh-Wen Liu , Shuhao Liu , Loren N. Pfeiffer , Kenneth W. West , Alex Levchenko , Xuan P. A. Gao

Recent experiments have observed hints of hydrodynamic electron flow in a number of materials, not all of which have an isotropic Fermi surface. We revisit these experiments in $\mathrm{PdCoO}_2$, a quasi-two-dimensional material whose…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-07-03 Caleb Q. Cook , Andrew Lucas

We report electrical and magneto transport measurements in mesoscopic size, two-dimensional (2D) electron gas in a GaAs quantum well. Remarkably, we find that the probe configuration and sample geometry strongly affects the temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-06 G. M. Gusev , A. D. Levin , E. V. Levinson , A. K. Bakarov

Charged plasma and Fermi liquid are two distinct states of electronic matter intrinsic to dilute two-dimensional electron systems at elevated and low temperatures, respectively. Probing their thermodynamics represents challenge because of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-18 A. Yu. Kuntsevich , Y. V. Tupikov , V. M. Pudalov , I. S. Burmistrov

We consider a hydrodynamic description of transport for generic two dimensional electron systems that lack Galilean invariance and do not fall into the category of Fermi liquids. We study magnetoresistance and show that it is governed only…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-13 Aavishkar A. Patel , Richard A. Davison , Alex Levchenko

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

We describe an analytical theory investigating the regime of validity of the Fermi liquid theory in interacting, via the long-range Coulomb coupling, two-dimensional Fermi systems comparing it with with the corresponding 3D systems. We find…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-13 Sankar Das Sarma , Yunxiang Liao

The hydrodynamic behavior of electron fluids in a certain range of temperatures and densities is well established in graphene and in 2D semiconductor heterostructures. The hydrodynamic regime is intrinsically based on electron-electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-12 Jack N. Engdahl , Aydin Cem Keser , Oleg P. Sushkov

Viscous fluid in an ultrahigh-mobility two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells is systematically studied through measurements of negative magnetoresistance (NMR) and photoresistance under microwave radiation, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-04 Xinghao Wang , Peizhe Jia , Rui-Rui Du , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. Baldwin , K. W. West

Linear temperature dependence of transport coefficients in metals is often ascribed to non-Fermi-liquid physics. Here we demonstrate the $T$-linear behavior of nonlocal conductivity in a clean 2D electron fluid, where carrier collisions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-11 Serhii Kryhin , Qiantan Hong , Leonid Levitov

Understanding how strongly correlated two-dimensional (2D) systems can give rise to unconventional superconductivity with high critical temperatures is one of the major unsolved problems in condensed matter physics. Ultracold 2D Fermi gases…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-06-09 Lennart Sobirey , Niclas Luick , Markus Bohlen , Hauke Biss , Henning Moritz , Thomas Lompe

Two-dimensional (2D) electrons in high-quality nanostructures at low temperatures can form a viscous fluid. We develop a theory of high-frequency magnetotransport in such fluid. The time dispersion of viscosity should be taken into account…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-07 P. S. Alekseev

Magnetotransport phenomena often provide critically important information about two-dimensional (2D) electron systems. For example, the independence of magneto-photo-resistance of 2D electrons in best-quality quantum wells on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-11 P. S. Alekseev , A. P. Alekseeva

Shear viscosity of a two-dimensional Fermi liquid is found to be a nonanalytic function of temperature. In contrast to the quasiparticle lifetime that is determined by the forward-scattering processes, the main contribution to the viscosity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. S. Novikov
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