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The last few years have seen an explosion of interest in hydrodynamic effects in interacting electron systems in ultra-pure materials. In this paper we briefly review the recent advances, both theoretical and experimental, in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 B. N. Narozhny , I. V. Gornyi , A. D. Mirlin , J. Schmalian

Motivated by recent experiments in weakly hybridized small-angle twisted bilayer graphene, we investigate how valley imbalance affects the viscosity of two-dimensional Dirac fluids. We show that shifting the two low-energy Dirac cones…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Alexey Ermakov , Alessandro Principi

We investigate physical properties that can be used to distinguish the valley degree of freedom in systems where inversion symmetry is broken, using graphene systems as examples. We show that the pseudospin associated with the valley index…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-10 Di Xiao , Wang Yao , Qian Niu

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

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

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

We investigate a valleytronic device based on graphene with charge separation at different sublattices and correspondingly at nonequivalent valleys. We characterize the maximality condition of valley polarization and investigate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-08 Hamed Koochaki Kelardeh , Mohammadreza Eidi , Takashi Oka , Jan Michael Rost

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

The electron's charge and spin degrees of freedom are at the core of modern electronic devices. With the in-depth investigation of two-dimensional materials, another degree of freedom, valley, has also attracted tremendous research…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-06 Ping Li , Bang Liu , Wei-Xi Zhang , Zhi-Xin Guo

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

Valleytronics is rapidly emerging as an exciting area of basic and applied research. In two dimensional systems, valley polarisation can dramatically modify physical properties through electron-electron interactions as demonstrated by such…

We examine the framework of relativistic spin-hydrodynamics in the context of electron hydrodynamics in graphene. We develop a spin-hydrodynamic model for a (2 + 1)-dimensional system of fermions under the condition of small spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Amaresh Jaiswal

In graphene, the pseudospin and the valley flavor arise as new types of quantum degrees of freedom due to the honeycomb lattice comprising two sublattices (A and B) and two inequivalent Dirac points (K and K') in the Brillouin zone,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-26 Changwon Park , Heejun Yang , Andrew J. Mayne , Gerald Dujardin , Sunae Seo , Young Kuk , Jisoon Ihm , Gunn Kim

We propose an all-electrical setup to generate valley polarization in graphene. A finite graphene sheet is connected to two normal metal electrodes each with two terminals along its zigzag edges, while the armchair edges remain free. When a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-30 Sachchidanand Das , Abhiram Soori

An external electric field changes the physical properties of polar-liquids due to the reorientation of their permanent dipoles. For example it should affect significantly the physical properties of water confined in a nanochannel. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Sobrino Fernández Mario , M. Neek-Amal , F. M. Peeters

In this Letter, both the manipulation of valley-polarized currents and the optical-like behaviors of Dirac fermions are theoretically explored in polycrystalline graphene. When strain is applied, the misorientation between two graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-14 Viet Hung Nguyen , Samuel Dechamps , Philippe Dollfus , Jean-Christophe Charlier

The aim of this work is to describe the electronic properties of graphene in a constant magnetic field in the long wavelength approximation with random binary disorder, by solving the Soven equation self-consistently. Density of state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-03 Juan Sebastian Ardenghi , Pablo Bechthold , Estela Gonzalez , Paula Jasen , Alfredo Juan

We develop a hydrodynamic theory for an electron system exhibiting the anomalous Hall effect, and show that an additional anomalous Hall effect is induced by a vorticity generated near boundaries. We calculate the momentum flux and force…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Hiroshi Funaki , Riki Toshio , Gen Tatara

We study graphene with an adsorbed spin texture, where the localized spins create a periodic magnetic flux. The latter produces gaps in the graphene spectrum and breaks the valley symmetry. The resulting effective electronic model, which is…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-03-31 Antonio Hill , Andreas Sinner , Klaus Ziegler

Probing and controlling the valley degree of freedom in graphene systems by transport measurements has been a major challenge to fully exploit the unique properties of this two-dimensional material. In this theoretical work, we show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Feng-Wu Chen , Nin-Yuan Lue , Mei-Yin Chou , Yu-Shu G. Wu