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In this paper I report a pedagogical derivation of the unconventional electronic hydrodynamics in graphene on the basis of the kinetic theory. While formally valid in the weak coupling limit, this approach allows one to derive the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-30 Boris N. Narozhny

We measure transport through a Ga[Al]As heterostructure at temperatures between 0.1 K and 30 K. Increasing the temperature enhances the electron-electron scattering rate and viscous effects in the two-dimensional electron gas arise. To…

The pursuit for clearly identifiable signatures of viscous electron flow in the solid state systems has been a paramount task in the search of the hydrodynamic electron transport behavior. In this work, we investigate theoretically the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-14 Songci Li , Alex Levchenko

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

We develop an analytical theoretical model for non-linear hydrodynamic magnetotransport of two-dimensional (2D) electron fluid with strong pair correlations in the electron dynamics. Within classical kinetics of 2D electrons, such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-22 P. S. Alekseev , M. A. Semina

One of the hallmark properties of fluids is their shear viscosity which is, among other things, responsible for parabolic flow profiles through narrow channels. In recent years, there has been a growing number of observations of said flow…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-08-02 Kitinan Pongsangangan , Pedro Cosme , Emanuele Di Salvo , Lars Fritz

In nanostructures with two-dimensional (2D) electrons and very low defect densities, a hydrodynamic transport regime has recently been realized. In this regime, 2D electrons form a viscous fluid due to frequent electron-electron collisions.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 Yu. O. Alekseev , P. S. Alekseev , A. P. Dmitriev

The experimental availability of ultra-high-mobility samples of graphene opens the possibility to realize and study experimentally the "hydrodynamic" regime of the electron liquid. In this regime the rate of electron-electron collisions is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Alessandro Principi , Giovanni Vignale

Motivated by Hall viscosity measurements in graphene sheets, we study hydrodynamic transport of electrons in a channel of finite width in external electric and magnetic fields. We consider electric charge densities varying from close to the…

Electron transport in clean 2D systems with weak electron-phonon (e-ph) coupling can transition from an Ohmic to a ballistic or a hydrodynamic regime. The ballistic regime occurs when electron-electron (e-e) scattering is weak whereas the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Mani Chandra , Gitansh Kataria , Deshdeep Sahdev , Ravishankar Sundaraman

Discovery of electron hydrodynamics in graphene system has opened a new scope of analytic calculations in condensed matter physics, which was traditionally well cultivated in science and engineering as a non-relativistic hydrodynamics and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-14 Thandar Zaw Win , Cho Win Aung , Gaurav Khandal , Sabyasachi Ghosh

We develop the theory of hydrodynamic electron transport in a long-range disorder potential for conductors in which the underlying electron liquid lacks Galilean invariance. For weak disorder, we express the transport coefficients of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Songci Li , Alex Levchenko , A. V. Andreev

In a fluid subject to a magnetic field the viscous stress tensor has a dissipationless antisymmetric component controlled by the so-called Hall viscosity. We here propose an all-electrical scheme that allows a determination of the Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-06 Francesco M. D. Pellegrino , Iacopo Torre , Marco Polini

We propose a protocol to identify spatial hallmarks of viscous electron flow in graphene and other two-dimensional viscous electron fluids. We predict that the profile of the magnetic field generated by hydrodynamic electron currents…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-06 Karina A. Guerrero-Becerra , Francesco M. D. Pellegrino , Marco Polini

Mirroring their role in electrical and optical physics, two-dimensional crystals are emerging as novel platforms for fluid separations and water desalination, which are hydrodynamic processes that occur in nanoscale environments. For…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-05-11 Steven E. Strong , Joel D. Eaves

The magnetic focusing of electrons has proven its utility in fundamental studies of electron transport. Here we report the direct imaging of magnetic focusing of electron waves, specifically in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG). We see…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-08-08 K. E. Aidala , R. E. Parrott , T. Kramer , E. J. Heller , R. M. Westervelt , M. P. Hanson , A. C. Gossard

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

We develop a hydrodynamic description of the resistivity and magnetoresistance of an electron liquid in a smooth disorder potential. This approach is valid when the electron-electron scattering length is sufficiently short. In a broad range…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-12 A. V. Andreev , Steven A. Kivelson , B. Spivak

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 emergence of hydrodynamic behavior in electronic flow within clean, particle-hole-symmetric systems at half-filling is a non-trivial problem. Navier-Stokes (NS) equations describe the momentum flow, while experimental measurements…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-26 Adrien Reingruber , Kitinan Pongsangangan , Fakher Assaad , Maksim Ulybyshev