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We report on novel valley acoustoelectric effect, which can arise in a 2D material, like a transition metal dichalcogenide monolayer, residing on a piezoelectric substrate. The essence of this effect lies in the emergence of a drag electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-27 A. V. Kalameitsev , V. M. Kovalev , I. G. Savenko

Viscous phenomena are the hallmark of the hydrodynamic flow exhibited by Dirac fermions in clean graphene at high enough temperatures. We report a quantitative calculation of the electronic shear and Hall viscosities in graphene based on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-31 B. N. Narozhny , M. Schütt

We describe an angularly asymmetric interface-scattering mechanism which allows to spatially separate the electrons in the two low-energy valleys of bilayer graphene. The effect occurs at electrostatically defined interfaces separating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-05 Henning Schomerus

We present an effective hydrodynamic theory of electronic transport in graphene in the interaction-dominated regime. We derive the emergent hydrodynamic description from the microscopic Boltzmann kinetic equation taking into account…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-23 U. Briskot , M. Schütt , I. V. Gornyi , M. Titov , B. N. Narozhny , A. D. Mirlin

Vertical graphene heterostructures made up of graphene layers separated by BN spacers allow for novel ways of tuning the interactions between electrons. We study the possibility of electron pairing mediated by modified repulsive…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-10-25 Francisco Guinea , Bruno Uchoa

Valley filtering processes have been explored in different graphene-based configurations and scenarios to control transport responses. Here we propose graphene multi-terminal set-ups properly designed to obtain valley filtered currents in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Vanessa Torres , Daiara Faria , Andrea Latgé

Fluid dynamics is one of the cornerstones of modern physics and has recently found applications in the transport of electrons in solids. In most solids electron transport is dominated by extrinsic factors, such as sample geometry and…

Achieving a population imbalance between the two inequivalent valleys is a critical first step for any valleytronic device. A valley-polarization can be induced in biased bilayer graphene using circularly polarized light. In this paper, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-17 Alex Friedlan , Marc M. Dignam

We present a hydrodynamic theory to describe a chiral electron system with a Weyl spin-orbit interaction on a field-theoretic basis. Evaluating the momentum flux density as a linear response to a driving electric field, we derive an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Hiroshi Funaki , Gen Tatara

The possibility to effect valley splitting of an electronic current in graphene represents the essential component in the new field of valleytronics in such two-dimensional materials. Based on a symmetry analysis of the scattering matrix,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Mahmoud M. Asmar , Sergio E. Ulloa

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 ultra-clean 2d materials electron viscosity is as important as Ohmic dissipation and electron transport exhibits hydrodynamic features. Using a simple framework of Brinkman equations we find that hydrodynamic electron flows exhibit a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Jarosław Pawłowski , Piotr Surówka , Konstantin Zarembo

Motivated by Hall viscosity measurements in graphene sheets, we study hydrodynamic transport of electrons in a channel of finite width in external electric and magnetic fields. We consider electric charge densities varying from close to the…

A potential step in a graphene nanoribbon with zigzag edges is shown to be an intrinsic source of intervalley scattering -- no matter how smooth the step is on the scale of the lattice constant a. The valleys are coupled by a pair of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-12 A. R. Akhmerov , J. H. Bardarson , A. Rycerz , C. W. J. Beenakker

We observe electro-hydrodynamically driven turbulent flows at low Reynolds numbers in a two-fluid emulsion consisting of micron-scale droplets. In the presence of electric fields, the droplets produce interacting hydrodynamic flows which…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-02-22 Atul Varshney , Mayur Sathe , Shankar Ghosh , Anand Yethiraj , S. Bhattacharya , J. B. Joshi

A new kinetic instability which results in formation of charge density waves is proposed. The instability is of a purely classical nature. A spatial period of arising space-charge and field configuration is inversely proportional to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 V. Yu. Kachorovskii , I. S. Lioublinskii , L. D. Tsendin

A classic result due to G.I.Taylor is that a drop placed in a uniform electric field becomes a prolate or oblate spheroid, which is axisymmetrically aligned with the applied field. We report an instability and symmetry-breaking transition…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-10-30 Paul F. Salipante , Petia M. Vlahovska

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

We consider a thin horizontal layer of a non-magnetic electrolyte containing a bulk solution of salt and carrying an electric current. The layer is bounded by two deformable free surfaces loaded with an insoluble surfactant and is placed in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-10 Andrey Pototsky , Sergey A. Suslov

Valley degrees of freedom in transition-metal dichalcogenides influence thoroughly electron-phonon coupling and its nonequilibrium dynamics. We conducted a first-principles study of the quantum kinetics of chiral phonons following…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Yiming Pan , Fabio Caruso