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In metallic samples of small enough size and sufficiently strong momentum-conserving scattering, the viscosity of the electron gas can become the dominant process governing transport. In this regime, momentum is a long-lived quantity whose…

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The electrons and phonons in metal films after ultra-short pulse laser heating are in highly non-equilibrium states not only between the electron sub-system and the phonon sub-system but also within the electron sub-system. An…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-08-05 Jun Zhou , Nianbei Li , Ronggui Yang

We present a novel approach to the treatment of thermal fluctuations in the (3+1)-D viscous hydrodynamic simulation MUSIC. The phenomenological impact of thermal fluctuations on hadronic observables is investigated using the IP-Glasma +…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Mayank Singh , Chun Shen , Scott McDonald , Sangyong Jeon , Charles Gale

Thermal transport acts as a powerful tool for studying the excitations and physical properties of insulators, where a charge gap suppresses electronic conduction. Recently, the thermal Hall effect has been observed across various materials,…

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We investigate the mechanisms involved in the thermomigration of interstitial hydrogen in metals. Using irreversible thermodynamics, we develop a comprehensive mechanistic model to capture the controlling effects. Crucially, through…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-06 Daniel J. Long , Edmund Tarleton , Alan C. F. Cocks , Felix Hofmann

Starting from our previous work where we have obtained a system of coupled integro-differential equations for acoustic sound waves and phonon density fluctuations in 2D crystals, we derive here the corresponding hydrodynamic equations and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-04-15 Pablo Scuracchio , Karl H. Michel , Francois M. Peeters

We consider hydrodynamic electron transport in the Hall-bar geometry. The theory is developed for systems with non-Galilean-invariant electron liquids. We show that inhomogeneity of the electron density induced by long-range disorder and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-27 Songci Li , A. V. Andreev , Alex Levchenko

Collective behavior is one of the most intriguing aspects of the hydrodynamic approach to electronic transport. Here we provide a consistent, unified calculation of the dispersion relations of the hydrodynamic collective modes in graphene.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-22 B. N. Narozhny , I. V. Gornyi , M. Titov

In sufficiently clean metals, it is possible for electrons to collectively flow as a viscous fluid at finite temperature. These viscous effects have been predicted to give a notable magnetoresistance, but whether the magnetoresistance is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-29 Ipsita Mandal , Andrew Lucas

Considering theoretically the transition between hydrodynamic and ballistic regimes in 2D semiconductors, we show that electrons in high-mobility 2D GaAs are by far the best system for the direct observation of collective hydrodynamic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-11 Seongjin Ahn , Sankar Das Sarma

We discuss the rich vibrational dynamics of nanometer-scale semiconducting and insulating crystals as probed by localized electronic impurity states, with an emphasis on nanoparticles that are only weakly coupled to their environment. Two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Michael R. Geller , W. M. Dennis , Vadim A. Markel , Kelly R. Patton , Daniel T. Simon , Ho-Soon Yang

We compute the transient dynamics of phonons in contact with high energy "hot" charge carriers in 12 polar and non-polar semiconductors, using a first-principles Boltzmann transport framework. For most materials, we find that the decay in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-03 Sridhar Sadasivam , Maria K. Y. Chan , Pierre Darancet

The thermodynamics of liquids and supercritical fluids is notorious for eluding a general theory, as can be done for crystalline solids on the basis of phonons and crystal symmetry. The extension of solid state notions such as…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-03-06 Cillian Cockrell , Aleksandra Dragović

We analyze the ground states and the elementary collective excitations (phonons) of a class of systems, which form cluster crystals in the absence of attractions. Whereas the regime of moderate-to-high-temperatures in the phase diagram has…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-19 Tim Neuhaus , Christos N. Likos

We introduce a different perspective describing electron-phonon interactions in graphene based on curved space hydrodynamics. Interactions of phonons with charge carriers increase the electrical resistivity of the material. Our approach…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-02-15 Ilario Giordanelli , Miller Mendoza , Hans Herrmann

Recent experiments have observed hints of hydrodynamic electron flow in a number of materials, not all of which have an isotropic Fermi surface. We revisit these experiments in $\mathrm{PdCoO}_2$, a quasi-two-dimensional material whose…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-07-03 Caleb Q. Cook , Andrew Lucas

Whereas electron-phonon scattering typically relaxes the electron's momentum in metals, a perpetual exchange of momentum between phonons and electrons conserves total momentum and can lead to a coupled electron-phonon liquid with unique…

In most materials, transport can be described by the motion of distinct species of quasiparticles, such as electrons and phonons. Strong interactions between quasiparticles, however, can lead to collective behaviour, including the…

While the vibrational thermodynamics of materials with small anharmonicity at low temperatures has been understood well based on the harmonic phonons approximation; at high temperatures, this understanding must accommodate how phonons…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-20 Tian Lan

An ideal material for on-board hydrogen storage must release hydrogen at practical temperature and pressure and also regenerate efficiently under similarly gentle conditions. Therefore, thermodynamically, the hydride material must lie…

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