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Modern two dimensional conductors with low defect densities and strong electron-electron scattering are favorable platforms for formation of a viscous fluid of conduction electrons. Electric properties of these systems are determined by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 A. N. Afanasiev , P. S. Alekseev

We describe ferroelectric thin films with circular electrodes and develop a thermodynamic theory that explains previously mysterious experiments. It is found to be especially useful for restricted geometries such as microstructures for…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-19 Laurent Baudry , Anaïs Sené , Igor A. Luk'yanchuk , Laurent Lahoche , James F Scott

The paper presents a theoretical description of the effects of strain induced by out-of-plane deformations on charge distributions and transport on graphene. A review of a continuum model for electrons using the Dirac formalism is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-15 Dawei Zhai , Nancy Sandler

Hydrodynamics is a new paradigm of electron transport in high-mobility devices, where frequent electron collisions give rise to a collective electron flow profile. However, conventional descriptions of these flows, which are based on the…

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

It is quite easy to control spin polarization and spin direction of a system via magnetic fields. However, there is no such a direct and efficient way to manipulate valley pseudospin degree of freedom. Here, we demonstrate experimentally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Si-Yu Li , Ying Su , Ya-Ning Ren , Lin He

Valley, as a degree of freedom, has been exploited to realize valley-selective Hall transport and circular dichroism in two-dimensional layered materials. On the other hand, orbital angular momentum of light with helical phase distribution…

Optics · Physics 2017-08-02 Xiaodong Chen , Min Chen , Jianwen Dong

Graphene corrugations affect hybridization of $\pi$ and $\sigma$ orbitals of carbon atoms in graphene based systems. It can as well break differently the symmetry of the electron transfer integrals for different strip boundaries. Using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-07 M. Pudlak , R. G. Nazmitdinov

We study theoretically the electron current across a monolayer graphene/hexagonal boron nitride/bilayer graphene tunnelling junction in an external magnetic field perpendicular to the layers. We show that change in effective tunnelling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-18 J. J . P. Thompson , D. J. Leech , M. Mucha-Kruczyński

Gradients of voltage, pressure, temperature, and salinity can transport objects in micro- and nanofluidic systems by well known mechanisms. Here we report the discovery of a transport effect driven by viscosity gradients, which cause an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-11-20 Benjamin Wiener , Derek Stein

We present an extension of recent relativistic Lattice Boltzmann methods based on Gaussian quadratures for the study of fluids in (2+1) dimensions. The new method is applied to the analysis of electron flow in graphene samples subject to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-04-10 A. Gabbana , M. Mendoza , S. Succi , R. Tripiccione

In high-quality conductors, the hydrodynamic regime of electron transport has been recently realized. In this work we theoretically investigate magnetotransport of a viscous electron fluid in samples with electron-impermeable obstacles. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-01 P. S. Alekseev , A. P. Dmitriev

Inspired by dense contractile tissues, where cells are subject to periodic deformation, we formulate and study a generic hydrodynamic theory of pulsating active liquids. Combining mechanical and phenomenological arguments, we postulate that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-25 Tirthankar Banerjee , Thibault Desaleux , Jonas Ranft , Étienne Fodor

Electron plasmas confined by an external magnetic field exhibit variations in a two-dimensional plane orthogonal to the confining magnetic field. A nonlinear fluid simulation code to investigate the properties of 2-D electron plasma wave…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dastgeer Shaikh , P. K. Shukla

The emergence of hydrodynamic behavior in electronic flow within clean, particle-hole-symmetric systems at half-filling is a non-trivial problem. Navier-Stokes (NS) equations describe the momentum flow, while experimental measurements…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-26 Adrien Reingruber , Kitinan Pongsangangan , Fakher Assaad , Maksim Ulybyshev

Mechanical deformations in $\alpha$-$\mathcal{T}_3$ lattices induce local pseudomagnetic fields of opposite directionality for different valleys. When this strain is equipped with a dynamical drive, it generates a complementary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 Alexander Filusch , Holger Fehske

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

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

We derive the Hydrodynamics for a system of N active, spherical, underdamped particles, interacting through conservative forces. At the microscopic level, we represent the evolution of the particles in terms of the Kramers equation for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-15 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Andrea Puglisi , Lorenzo Caprini

In addition to spin, electrons in many materials possess an additional pseudo-spin degree of freedom known as 'valley'. In materials where the spin and valley degrees of freedom are weakly coupled, they can be both excited and controlled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-12 Xian-Peng Zhang , Chunli Huang , Miguel A. Cazalilla

The unsteady electrorotation of a drop of a viscous weakly conducting polarizable liquid suspended in another viscous weakly conducting polarizable liquid immiscible with the former in an applied constant uniform electric field is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-10-11 Alexander N. Tyatyushkin