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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

The conductance of ballistic graphene at the neutrality point is due to coherent electron tunneling between the leads, the so called pseudodiffusive regime. The conductance scales as function of the sample dimensions in the same way as in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-17 F. Guinea , M. I. Katsnelson

Viscous electron flow exhibits exotic signatures such as superballistic conduction. In order to observe hydrodynamics effects, a 2D device where the current flow is as inhomogeneous as possible is desirable. To this end, we build three…

An increasing number of papers propose routes to implement thermal counterparts of electronic rectification. These schemes are mainly based on combinations of crystal anharmonicity and broken mirror symmetry. With respect to graphene,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-13 Daryoush Shiri , Andreas Isacsson

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 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

The pursuit for clearly identifiable signatures of viscous electron flow in the solid state systems has been a paramount task in the search of the hydrodynamic electron transport behavior. In this work, we investigate theoretically the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-14 Songci Li , Alex Levchenko

We develop a hydrodynamic theory of charge and heat currents induced by traveling waves, such as surface acoustic waves, in graphene devices near charge neutrality. The currents depend on the intrinsic conductivity and viscosity of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 E. Kirkinis , A. Levchenko , A. V. Andreev

Electronic instabilities at the crossing of the Fermi energy with a Van Hove singularity in the density of states often lead to new phases of matter such as superconductivity, magnetism or density waves. However, in most materials this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-18 Guohong Li , A. Luican , J. M. B. Lopes dos Santos , A. H. Castro Neto , A. Reina , J. Kong , E. Y. Andrei

Vortices are the hallmarks of hydrodynamic flow. Recent studies indicate that strongly-interacting electrons in ultrapure conductors can display signatures of hydrodynamic behavior including negative nonlocal resistance, Poiseuille flow in…

Inspired by the recent experimental signatures of relativistic hydrodynamics in graphene, we investigate theoretically the behavior of hydrodynamic sound modes in such quasi-relativistic fluids near charge neutrality, within linear…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-07-06 Andrew Lucas

In highly viscous electron systems such as, for example, high quality graphene above liquid nitrogen temperature, a linear response to applied electric current becomes essentially nonlocal, which can give rise to a number of new and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-14 Francesco M. D. Pellegrino , Iacopo Torre , Andre K. Geim , Marco Polini

Van Hove singularities (VHS's) in the density of states play an outstanding and diverse role for the electronic and thermodynamic properties of crystalline solids. At the critical point the Fermi surface connectivity changes and topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-06 Youngwook Kim , Patrick Herlinger , Pilkyung Moon , Mikito Koshino , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Jurgen. H Smet

In nearly compensated graphene, disorder-assisted electron-phonon scattering or "supercollisions" are responsible for both quasiparticle recombination and energy relaxation. Within the hydrodynamic approach, these processes contribute weak…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-30 B. N. Narozhny , I. V. Gornyi

In the presence of interactions, electrons in condensed-matter systems can behave hydrodynamically, exhibiting phenomena associated with classical fluids, such as vortices and Poiseuille flow. In most conductors, electron-electron…

In this paper we dwell over the study of the boundary layer problem in a hydrodynamical description of the electrons in gated graphene. It has been verified experimentally that this fluid can display non-Poiseuille like flow as reproduced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-28 Pedro Cosme , João S. Santos , Hugo Terças

Electrons behave like a classical fluid with a momentum distribution function that varies slowly in space and time when the quantum mechanical carrier-carrier scattering dominates over all other scattering processes. Recent experiments in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-07 Derek Y. H. Ho , Indra Yudhistira , Nilotpal Chakraborty , Shaffique Adam

We present a hydrodynamic theory for electron-hole magnetotransport in graphene incorporating carrier-population imbalance, energy, and momentum relaxation processes. We focus on the electric response and find that the carrier and energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Hong-Yi Xie , Alex Levchenko

We introduce a different perspective describing electron-phonon interactions in graphene based on curved space hydrodynamics. Interactions of phonons with charge carriers increase the electrical resistivity of the material. Our approach…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-02-15 Ilario Giordanelli , Miller Mendoza , Hans Herrmann

Recent experiments have revealed that novel nonequilibrium states consistent with the hydrodynamic description of electrons are realized in ultrapure graphene, which hosts the valley degrees of freedom. Here, we formulate a theory of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-05 Ryotaro Sano , Daigo Oue , Mamoru Matsuo