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Phonon hydrodynamics is an exotic phonon transport phenomenon that challenges the conventional understanding of diffusive phonon scattering in crystalline solids. It features a peculiar collective motion of phonons with various…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-24 Kanka Ghosh , Andrzej Kusiak , Jean-Luc Battaglia

In this work we consider the hydrodynamic behavior of a coupled electron-phonon fluid, focusing on electronic transport under the conditions of strong phonon drag. This regime occurs when the rate of phonon equilibration due to e.g. umklapp…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-15 Alex Levchenko , Jörg Schmalian

Non-diffusive, fluid-like transport of charge and heat has been observed in several materials, raising the question of whether they can emerge simultaneously and how they are related to bi-component electron-phonon fluids. Here we introduce…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-23 Jennifer Coulter , Bogdan Rajkov , Michele Simoncelli

We develop the theory of hydrodynamics of an isotropic Fermi liquid of electrons coupled to isotropic acoustic phonons, assuming that umklapp processes may be neglected. At low temperatures, the fluid is approximately Galilean invariant; at…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-15 Xiaoyang Huang , Andrew Lucas

Electronic and thermal transport properties in two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors have been extensively investigated due to their potential to miniaturize transistors. Microscopically, electron-phonon interactions are considered the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-25 Yujie Quan , Bolin Liao

Interactions of charge carriers with lattice vibrations, or phonons, play a critical role in unconventional electronic transport of metals and semimetals. Recent observations of phonon-mediated collective electron flow in bulk semimetals,…

A thorough understanding of the microscopic picture of heat conduction in solids is critical to a broad range of applications, from thermal management of microelectronics to more efficient thermoelectric materials. The transport properties…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-04 Yujie Quan , Shengying Yue , Bolin Liao

We analyze from a microscopic point of view the feasibility of a hydrodynamic regime in a type-I Weyl semimetal driven by electron-electron interactions mediated by virtual phonons. Considering also the effects of of impurities and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-14 Joan Bernabeu , Alberto Cortijo

It is analyzed the hydrodynamics of carriers (charge and heat motion) and phonons (heat motion) in semiconductors in the presence of constant electric fields. This is done in terms of a so-called Higher-Order Generalized Hydrodynamics…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Clóves G. Rodrigues , A. Rubens B. Castro , Roberto Luzzi

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

Electron hydrodynamics encompasses the exotic fluid-like behavior of electrons in two-dimensional materials such as graphene. It accounts for superballistic conduction, also known as the Gurzhi effect, where increasing temperature reduces…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Jorge Estrada-Álvarez , Elena Díaz , Francisco Domínguez-Adame

The hydrodynamic phonon transport was studied several decades ago for verifying the quantum theory of lattice thermal transport. Recent prediction of significant hydrodynamic phonon transport in graphitic materials shows its practical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-15 Sangyeop Lee , Xun Li

The Chapman-Enskog method is generalized for accounting the effect of kinetic modes on hydrodynamic evolution. Hydrodynamic states of phonon system of insulators have been studied in a small drift velocity approximation. For simplicity, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-12-27 S. A. Sokolovsky

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

We propose a hydrodynamic model to study the thermotransport properties of semiconductor electrons. From the semiclassical Boltzmann equation a set of balance equations is built for the relevant fields. The electron density, the electron…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-07-13 A. Rangel-Huerta , M. A. Rodriguez-Meza

Generic interacting many-body quantum systems are believed to behave as classical fluids on long time and length scales. Due to rapid progress in growing exceptionally pure crystals, we are now able to experimentally observe this collective…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-08 Andrew Lucas , Kin Chung Fong

Thanks to electron-electron ($e$-$e$) collisions conserving momentum, metallic electron fluids are viscous. Yet, this viscosity is rarely detectable in bulk transport. Here, we report on the canonical realization of the Gurzhi effect in an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-22 Xiaodong Guo , Xiaokang Li , Benoît Fauqué , Alaska Subedi , Lingxiao Zhao , Zengwei Zhu , Kamran Behnia

The ``flow'' of electric currents and heat in standard metals is diffusive with electronic motion randomized by impurities. However, for ultraclean metals, electrons can flow like water with their flow being described by the equations of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-03-28 Lars Fritz , Thomas Scaffidi

In highly conductive metals with sufficiently strong momentum-conserving scattering, the electron momentum is regarded as a long-lived quantity, whose dynamics is described by an emergent hydrodynamic theory. In this paper, we develop an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-29 Riki Toshio , Kazuaki Takasan , Norio Kawakami

A generalized Hydrodynamics, referred to as Mesoscopic Hydro-Thermodynamics, of phonons in semiconductors is presented. It involves the descriptions of the motion of the quasi-particle density and of the energy density. The hydrodynamic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-11-05 A. R. Vasconcellos , A. R. B. Castro , C. A. B. Silva , R. Luzzi
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