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In graphene, where the electron-electron scattering is dominant, electrons collectively act as a fluid. This hydrodynamic behaviour of charge carriers leads to exciting nonlinear phenomena such as solitary waves and shocks, among others. In…

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A general relation is derived between the linear and second-order nonlinear ac conductivities of an electron system in the hydrodynamic regime of frequencies below the interparticle scattering rate. The magnitude and tensorial structure of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-03-20 Zhiyuan Sun , D. N. Basov , M. M. Fogler

The band gap, a key concept in solid-state physics, is traditionally explained by the Bragg diffraction of electron waves in the periodic potential of a crystal. Although widely accepted, this framework raises fundamental issues in…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-28 Koichi Kajiyama

New non-linear, spatially periodic, long wavelength electrostatic modes of an electron fluid oscillating against a motionless ion fluid (Langmuir waves) are given, with viscous and resistive effects included. The cold plasma approximation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-05-28 A. A. Skorupski , E. Infeld

On electron kinetic scales, ions and electrons decouple, and electron velocity shear on electron inertial length $\sim d_e$ can trigger electromagnetic (EM) electron Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (EKHI). In this paper, we present an analytic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-04 H. Che , G. P. Zank

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 metallic samples of small enough size and sufficiently strong momentum-conserving scattering, the viscosity of the electron gas can become the dominant process governing transport. In this regime, momentum is a long-lived quantity whose…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-06-07 Thomas Scaffidi , Nabhanila Nandi , Burkhard Schmidt , Andrew P. Mackenzie , Joel E. Moore

Metamaterials provide exceptional control over physical phenomena, enabling many disruptive technologies. However, researches in hydrodynamic meta-devices have mainly used intrusive methods to manipulate material structures, limited by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-01 Chen-Long Wu , Bin Wang , Hao Wang , Neng-Zhi Yao , Liujun Xu , Xuesheng Wang , Jiping Huang

The strongly correlated electron fluids in high temperature cuprate superconductors demonstrate an anomalous linear temperature ($T$) dependent resistivity behavior, which persists to a wide temperature range without exhibiting saturation.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-08-01 Tao Hu , Yinshang Liu , Hong Xiao , Gang Mu , Yi-feng Yang

Rotating waves are a fascinating feature of a wide array of complex systems, particularly those arising in the study of many chemical and biological processes. With many rigorous mathematical investigations of rotating waves relying on the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-09-30 Jason J. Bramburger

The present work comprehensively reviews electron hydrodynamics in graphene, highlighting both experimental observations and theoretical developments. Key experimental signatures such as negative vicinity resistance, Poiseuille flow, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-25 Subhalaxmi Nayak , Cho Win Aung , Thandar Zaw Win , Ashutosh Dwibedi , Sabyasachi Ghosh , Sesha Vempati

In the ballistic limit, the Landauer conductance steps of a mesoscopic quantum wire have been explained by coherent and dissipationless transmission of individual electrons across a one-dimensional barrier. This leaves untouched the central…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mukunda P. Das , Frederick Green

We report an unconventional temperature dependence of the resistivity in several strongly correlated systems approaching a localized to itinerant electronic transition from the itinerant electron side. The observed resistivity, proportioanl…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Rivadulla , J. -S. Zhou , J. B. Goodenough

Generalized hydrodynamic theory, which does not rest on the requirement of a local equilibrium, is derived in the long-wave limit of a kinetic equation. The theory bridges the whole frequency range between the quasistatic (Navier-Stokes)…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 I. V. Tokatly , O. Pankratov

We explore how the superconductivity arising from the on-site electron-electron repulsion will change when the repulsion is changed to a long-ranged, 1/r-like one by introducing an extended Hubbard model with the repulsion extending to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-02-17 Seiichiro Onari , Ryotaro Arita , Kazuhiko Kuroki , Hideo Aoki

The hydrodynamic regime of charge transport has been recently realized in high-quality conductors. In the hydrodynamic as well as in the Ohmic regimes the main part of the Hall resistance of a long sample is determined by the balance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-15 A. N. Afanasiev , P. S. Alekseev , A. A. Danilenko , A. P. Dmitriev , A. A. Greshnov , M. A. Semina

Electron transport through a nanostructure can be characterized in part using concepts from classical fluid dynamics. It is thus natural to ask how far the analogy can be taken, and whether the electron liquid can exhibit nonlinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-27 Neil Bushong , John Gamble , Massimiliano Di Ventra

Electrodynamic phenomena related to vortices in superconductors have been studied since their prediction by Abrikosov, and seem to hold no fundamental mysteries. However, most of the effects are treated separately, with no guiding…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-02-23 A. J. Beekman , J. Zaanen

In sufficiently clean materials where electron-electron interactions are strong compared to momentum-relaxing scattering processes, electron transport resembles the flow of a viscous fluid. We study hydrodynamic electron transport across…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-13 Ramal Afrose , Aydin Cem Keser , Oleg Sushkov , Shaffique Adam

Hydrodynamic-like electron flows are typically modeled using the Stokes-Ohm equation or a kinetic description that is based on a dual-relaxation time approximation. Such models assume a short intrinsic mean free path $\ell_e$ due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-19 Nitay Ben-Shachar , Johannes Hofmann