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We examine nonlinear transport in a viscous two-dimensional electron fluid within narrow GaAs channels. The differential magnetoresistance shows nonmonotonic behavior, a signature of electron pairing in the hydrodynamic regime. Theoretical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 A. D. Levin , G. M. Gusev , A. K. Bakarov

Electron hydrodynamics gives rise to surprising correlated behaviors in which electrons "cooperate" to quench dissipation and reduce the electric fields needed to sustain the flow. Such collective "free" flows are usually expected at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-18 Qiantan Hong , Margarita Davydova , Patrick J Ledwith , Leonid Levitov

It is shown that low Reynolds number fluid flows can cause suspended particles to respond as though they were in an equilibrium system with an effective potential. This general result follows naturally from the fact that different methods…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-06-19 Todd M. Squires

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

We report non-local electrical measurements in a mesoscopic size two-dimensional (2D) electron gas in a GaAs quantum well in a hydrodynamic regime. Viscous electric flow is expected to be dominant when electron-electron collisions occur…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-16 A. D. Levin , G. M. Gusev , E. V. Levinson , Z. D. Kvon , A. K. Bakarov

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

The flow of viscoelastic fluids in channels and pipes remain poorly understood, particularly at low Reynolds numbers. Here, we investigate the flow of polymeric solutions in straight channels using pressure measurements and particle…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-11-13 Boyang Qin , Paul F. Salipante , Steven D. Hudson , Paulo E. Arratia

We report electrical and magneto transport measurements in mesoscopic size, two-dimensional (2D) electron gas in a GaAs quantum well. Remarkably, we find that the probe configuration and sample geometry strongly affects the temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-06 G. M. Gusev , A. D. Levin , E. V. Levinson , A. K. Bakarov

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

Materials with strongly-correlated electrons exhibit interesting phenomena such as metal-insulator transitions and high-temperature superconductivity. In stark contrast to ordinary metals, electron transport in these materials is thought to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-11-19 J. Gooth , F. Menges , C. Shekhar , V. Süß , N. Kumar , Y. Sun , U. Drechsler , R. Zierold , C. Felser , B. Gotsmann

A water monolayer squeezed between two solid planes experiences strong out-of-plane confinement effects while expanding freely within the plane. As a consequence, the transport of such two-dimensional water combines hydrodynamic and…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-06 Maxim Trushin , Alexandra Carvalho , A. H. Castro Neto

The viscous flow of electrons in a narrow channel requires both strong electron-electron interactions and no-slip boundary conditions. However, introducing obstacles within the liquid can significantly increase flow resistance and, as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-07 A. D. Levin , G. M. Gusev , V. A. Chitta , Z. D. Kvon , A. S. Jaroshevich , D. E. Utkin , D. V. Dmitriev , A. K. Bakarov

Linear temperature dependence of transport coefficients in metals is often ascribed to non-Fermi-liquid physics. Here we demonstrate the $T$-linear behavior of nonlocal conductivity in a clean 2D electron fluid, where carrier collisions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-11 Serhii Kryhin , Qiantan Hong , Leonid Levitov

Looking for the underlying hydrodynamic mechanisms determining the elliptic flow we show that for an expanding relativistic perfect fluid the transverse flow may derive from a solvable hydrodynamic potential, if the entropy is transversally…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-24 Robi Peschanski , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

Hydrodynamic equations (HDEQs) are derived which describe spatio-temporal evolutions of the electron temperature and the chemical potential of two-dimensional systems in strong magnetic fields in states with large diagonal resistivity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Hiroshi Akera

For over a hundred years, electron transport in conductive materials has been primarily described by the Drude model, which assumes that current flow is impeded primarily by momentum-relaxing collisions between electrons and extrinsic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-06 Aaron Hui , Brian Skinner

We obtain a rigorous upper bound on the resistivity $\rho$ of an electron fluid whose electronic mean free path is short compared to the scale of spatial inhomogeneities. When such a hydrodynamic electron fluid supports a non-thermal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-04-24 Andrew Lucas , Sean A. Hartnoll

The hydrodynamic flow of the chiral electron fluid in a Weyl semimetal slab of finite thickness is studied by using the consistent hydrodynamic theory. The latter includes viscous, anomalous, and vortical effects, as well as accounts for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-23 E. V. Gorbar , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy , P. O. Sukhachov

Viscous electron flow exhibits exotic signatures such as superballistic conduction. In order to observe hydrodynamics effects, a 2D device where the current flow is as inhomogeneous as possible is desirable. To this end, we build three…

In ultra-pure conductors, collective motion of charge carriers at relatively high temperatures may become hydrodynamic such that electronic transport may be described similarly to a viscous flow. In confined geometries (e.g., in ultra-high…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-12 P. S. Alekseev , A. P. Dmitriev , I. V. Gornyi , V. Yu. Kachorovskii , B. N. Narozhny , M. Titov