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Rejuvenation of hydrodynamic transport in solids provides a new window to study collective motion of electrons, where electrons behave like a viscous fluid akin to classical liquids. Experimental observations of such exotic states have not…

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The dynamics of the diffusion flow of holes photoinjected into a mesoscopic GaAs channel of variable width, where they, together with background electrons, form a hydrodynamic electron-hole fluid, is studied using time-resolved…

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