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The last few years have seen an explosion of interest in hydrodynamic effects in interacting electron systems in ultra-pure materials. One such material, graphene, is not only an excellent platform for the experimental realization of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-21 Boris N. Narozhny

Inspired by the recent experimental signatures of relativistic hydrodynamics in graphene, we investigate theoretically the behavior of hydrodynamic sound modes in such quasi-relativistic fluids near charge neutrality, within linear…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-07-06 Andrew Lucas

In the hydrodynamic regime, phonons drift with a nonzero collective velocity under a temperature gradient, reminiscent of viscous gas and fluid flow. The study of hydrodynamic phonon transport has spanned over half a century but has been…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-02-05 Zhiwei Ding , Jiawei Zhou , Bai Song , Vazrik Chiloyan , Mingda Li , Te-Huan Liu , Gang Chen

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

It is shown that gauge theories with fermions are most naturally studied via a polar decomposition of the field variable. This is the fermionic analog of the preprint cond-mat/0210673. The hope is that these two put together will enable the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Girish S. Setlur

The interactions between electrons and lattice vibrational modes play the key role in determining the carrier transport properties, thermoelectric performance and other physical quantities related to phonons in semiconductors. However, for…

We demonstrate that electron-phonon interactions enhance the stability of charge density waves in low-temperature phases of many-electron systems. Our proof method involves an appropriate application of the Pirogov--Sinai theory to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 Tadahiro Miyao

Interfaces impede heat flow in micro/nanostructured systems. Conventional theories for interfacial thermal transport were derived based on bulk phonon properties of the materials making up the interface without explicitly considering the…

The hydrodynamic equations for a crystals with interstitials, taking into account the dissipative processes of the viscosity, heat conduction and the interstitial diffusion are derived. To achieve that we use the phenomenological approach…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 G. L. Buchbinder

Using as a thermometer the temperature dependent magneto-transport of a two-dimensional electron gas, we find that effective temperature scales with current as $T_{\rm e} \sim I^a$, where $a=0.4 \pm 2\%$ in the {\it Shubnikov de-Haas}…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Edmond Chow , H. P. Wei , S. M. Girvin , M. Shayegan

It has been known for decades that a magnetic field can deflect phonons as they flow in response to a thermal gradient, producing a thermal Hall effect. Several recent experiments have revealed ratios of the phonon Hall conductivity to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-15 B. Flebus , A. H. MacDonald

Owing to their large relatively thermal conductivity, peculiar, non-hydrodynamic features are expected to characterize the acoustic-like excitations observed in liquid metals. We report here an experimental study of collective modes in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-04-29 S. Cazzato , T. Scopigno , S. Hosokawa , M. Inui , W-C. Pilgrim , G. Ruocco

The anomalous Hall effect in a multiband tight-binding model is numerically studied taking into account both elastic scattering by disorder and inelastic scattering by the electron-phonon interaction. The Hall conductivity is obtained as a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-07-19 Atsuo Shitade , Naoto Nagaosa

In a growing list of insulators, experiments find that magnetic field induces a misalignment between the heat flux and the thermal gradient vectors. This phenomenon, known as the phonon thermal Hall effect, implies energy flow without…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-01 Kamran Behnia

In this paper, we present a Hamiltonian and thermodynamic theory of heat transport on various levels of description. Transport of heat is formulated within kinetic theory of polarized phonons, kinetic theory of unpolarized phonons,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-20 Michal Pavelka , Liliana Restuccia , David Jou

SrTiO$_3$, a quantum paralectric, displays a detectable phonon thermal Hall effect (THE). Here we show that the amplitude of THE is extremely sensitive to stoichiometry. It drastically decreases upon substitution of a tiny fraction of Sr…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-12 Shan Jiang , Xiaokang Li , Benoît Fauqué , Kamran Behnia

Machine learning techniques are used to explore the intrinsic origins of the hydrodynamic thermal transport and to find new materials interesting for science and engineering. The hydrodynamic thermal transport is governed intrinsically by…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-09 Pol Torres , Stephen Wu , Shenghong Ju , Chang Liu , Terumasa Tadano , Ryo Yoshida , Junichiro Shiomi

Hydrodynamic electron transport arises when carrier kinetics are dominated by interelectron collisions rather than the relaxation of momentum out of the electron system. In recent years, signatures of electron hydrodynamics have been…

A first-principles density functional method along with the direct solution of linearized Boltzmann transport equations are employed to systematically analyze the low-temperature thermal transport in crystalline GeTe. The extensive thermal…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-28 Kanka Ghosh , Andrzej Kusiak , Jean-Luc Battaglia

The existing techniques of account for the phonon dispersion are computationally costly, while its impact on a variety of thermodynamic properties appears negligible. We develop a mathematical formalism, which allows for clear understanding…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-05-01 Roman Belousov , Mauro Prencipe