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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…

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The experimental availability of ultra-high-mobility samples of graphene opens the possibility to realize and study experimentally the "hydrodynamic" regime of the electron liquid. In this regime the rate of electron-electron collisions is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Alessandro Principi , Giovanni Vignale

In ultra-pure conductors, collective motion of charge carriers at relatively high temperatures may become hydrodynamic such that electronic transport may be described similarly to a viscous flow. In confined geometries (e.g., in ultra-high…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-12 P. S. Alekseev , A. P. Dmitriev , I. V. Gornyi , V. Yu. Kachorovskii , B. N. Narozhny , M. Titov

Graphene is of interest in the development of next-generation electronics due to its high electron mobility, flexibility and stability. However, graphene transistors have poor on/off current ratios because of the absence of a bandgap. One…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-03 Shaorui Li , Jiaheng Li , Yongchao Wang , Chenglin Yu , Yaoxin Li , Wenhui Duan , Yayu Wang , Jinsong Zhang

Electron-electron interactions in high-mobility conductors can give rise to transport signatures resembling those described by classical hydrodynamics. Using a nanoscale scanning magnetometer, we imaged a distinctive hydrodynamic transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-02 Marius L. Palm , Chaoxin Ding , William S. Huxter , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Christian L. Degen

We develop a theory of drag in graphene double layers near charge neutrality. We work in the regime of electron hydrodynamics and account for interlayer correlations of charge puddle disorder. The drag resistivity is expressed in terms of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Dmitry Zverevich , Alex Levchenko , A. V. Andreev

Generic interacting many-body quantum systems are believed to behave as classical fluids on long time and length scales. Due to rapid progress in growing exceptionally pure crystals, we are now able to experimentally observe this collective…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-08 Andrew Lucas , Kin Chung Fong

The elastic response of an electron fluid at finite frequencies is defined by the electron viscosity $\eta(\omega)$. We determine $\eta(\omega)$ for graphene at the charge neutrality point in the collisionless regime, including the leading…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-06 Julia M. Link , Daniel E. Sheehy , Boris N. Narozhny , Jörg Schmalian

The last few years have seen an explosion of interest in hydrodynamic effects in interacting electron systems in ultra-pure materials. One such material, graphene, is not only an excellent platform for the experimental realization of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-21 Boris N. Narozhny

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-13 Weiwei Chen , W. Zhu

Hydrodynamic electron transport arises when carrier kinetics are dominated by interelectron collisions rather than the relaxation of momentum out of the electron system. In recent years, signatures of electron hydrodynamics have been…

We develop the theory of hydrodynamic electron transport in a long-range disorder potential for conductors in which the underlying electron liquid lacks Galilean invariance. For weak disorder, we express the transport coefficients of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Songci Li , Alex Levchenko , A. V. Andreev

In the context of describing electrons in solids as a fluid in the hydrodynamic regime, we consider a flow of electrons in a channel of finite width, i.e.~a Poiseuille flow. The electrons are accelerated by a constant electric field. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Johanna Erdmenger , Ioannis Matthaiakakis , Rene Meyer , David Rodríguez Fernández

In ultra-pure materials electrons may exhibit a collective motion similar to the hydrodynamic flow of a viscous fluid, the phenomenon with far reaching consequences in a wide range of many body systems from black holes to high-temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-01 Sven Danz , Boris N. Narozhny

In very clean solid-state systems, where carrier-carrier interactions dominate over any other scattering mechanisms, the flow of electrons can be described within a hydrodynamic framework. In these cases, analogues of viscous fluid…

Microfluidics has enabled a revolution in the manipulation of small volumes of fluids. Controlling flows at larger scales and faster rates, or $\textit{macrofluidics}$, has broad applications but involves the unique complexities of inertial…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-05-24 Quynh M. Nguyen , Joanna Abouezzi , Leif Ristroph

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 this paper we study thermo-electric transport in interacting two-dimensional Dirac-type systems using a phenomenological Boltzmann approach. We consider a setup that can accommodate electrons, holes, and collective modes. In the first…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-30 Kitinan Pongsangangan , T. Ludwig , H. T. C. Stoof , Lars Fritz

Electrons in graphene exhibit hydrodynamic behavior in a certain range of temperatures. We indicate that electric current in this regime can result in cooling of electron fluid due to the Joule-Thomson effect. Cooling occurs in the Fermi…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 K. Zarembo

Reasoning by analogy is powerful in physics for students and researchers alike, a case in point being electronics and hydraulics as analogous studies of electric currents and fluid flows. Around 100 years ago, Nikola Tesla proposed a flow…