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We formulate a general framework to study the flow of the electron liquid in two dimensions past a random array of impenetrable obstacles in the presence of a magnetic field. We derive a linear-response formula for the resistivity tensor…

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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…

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

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

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

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 study the hydrodynamic flow of electrons through a smooth potential energy landscape in two dimensions, for which the electrical current is concentrated along thin channels that follow percolating equipotential contours. The width of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-24 Aaron Hui , Calvin Pozderac , Brian Skinner

Hydrodynamics is a general description for the flow of a fluid, and is expected to hold even for fundamental particles such as electrons when inter-particle interactions dominate. While various aspects of electron hydrodynamics were…

We study hydrodynamic electron transport in Corbino graphene devices. Due to the irrotational character of the flow, the forces exerted on the electron liquid are expelled from the bulk. We show that in the absence of Galilean invariance,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-11 Songci Li , Alex Levchenko , A. V. Andreev

In this article, we attempt to understand various aspects of turbulent flows in electron hydrodynamics. We analyze a rectangular channel geometry in the presence of an electric field and a Corbino geometry in the presence of a magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Kanad Bhattacharya

Hydrodynamic electron transport in solids, governed by momentum-conserving electron-electron collisions, offers a unique framework to explore collective phenomena. Within this framework, correlated electron motion is modeled as viscous…

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

We present the theory of thermoelectric transport in metals with long-lived quasiparticles, carefully addressing the interplay of electron-electron scattering as well as electron-impurity scattering, but neglecting electron-phonon…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-27 Andrew Lucas , Sankar Das Sarma

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

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

We develop a theory of magnetoresistance of two-dimensional electron systems in a smooth disorder potential in the hydrodynamic regime. Our theory applies to two-dimensional semiconductor structures with strongly correlated carriers when…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-22 Alex Levchenko , Hong-Yi Xie , A. V. Andreev

The Landauer formula for quantum conductance, based on the modern paradigm: "conduction is transmission", is generalized to samples of macroscopic size. Two regimes of electrical conduction, namely diffusive and ballistic ones, are studied.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 P. R. Silva , Marcos Sampaio , C. Nassif , M. C. Nemes

Thanks to electron-electron ($e$-$e$) collisions conserving momentum, metallic electron fluids are viscous. Yet, this viscosity is rarely detectable in bulk transport. Here, we report on the canonical realization of the Gurzhi effect in an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-22 Xiaodong Guo , Xiaokang Li , Benoît Fauqué , Alaska Subedi , Lingxiao Zhao , Zengwei Zhu , Kamran Behnia

Electron transport is conventionally determined by the momentum-relaxing scattering of electrons by the host solid and its excitations. The electrical resistance is set by geometrical factors and the resistivity, which is a microscopic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-04-27 Philip J. W. Moll , Pallavi Kushwaha , Nabhanila Nandi , Burkhard Schmidt , Andrew P. Mackenzie

Interactions of charge carriers with lattice vibrations, or phonons, play a critical role in unconventional electronic transport of metals and semimetals. Recent observations of phonon-mediated collective electron flow in bulk semimetals,…