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Recently, much interest has emerged in fluid-like electric charge transport in various solid-state systems. The hydrodynamic behavior of the electronic fluid reveals itself as a decrease of the electrical resistance with increasing…

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We report non-local electrical measurements in a mesoscopic size two-dimensional (2D) electron gas in a GaAs quantum well in a hydrodynamic regime. Viscous electric flow is expected to be dominant when electron-electron collisions occur…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-16 A. D. Levin , G. M. Gusev , E. V. Levinson , Z. D. Kvon , A. K. Bakarov

We consider the hydrodynamic flow of an electron fluid in a channel formed in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with no-slip boundary conditions. To generate vorticity in the fluid the flow is influenced by an array of micromagnets on…

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Theoretical and experimental studies have revealed that electrons in condensed matter can behave hydrodynamically, exhibiting fluid phenomena such as Stokes flow and vortices. Unlike classical fluids, preferred directions inside crystals…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-24 Georgios Varnavides , Adam S. Jermyn , Polina Anikeeva , Claudia Felser , Prineha Narang

We study the hydrodynamic flow of electrons through a smooth potential energy landscape in two dimensions, for which the electrical current is concentrated along thin channels that follow percolating equipotential contours. The width of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-24 Aaron Hui , Calvin Pozderac , Brian Skinner

We examine nonlinear transport in a viscous two-dimensional electron fluid within narrow GaAs channels. The differential magnetoresistance shows nonmonotonic behavior, a signature of electron pairing in the hydrodynamic regime. Theoretical…

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In this study, we present our experimental investigation on the magnetotransport properties of a two-dimensional electron system in GaAs quantum wells utilizing a variety of device geometries, including obstacles with thin barriers and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-25 A. D. Levin , G. M. Gusev , A. S. Yaroshevich , Z. D. Kvon , A. K. Bakarov

We analyze the role of boundary geometry in viscous electronic hydrodynamics. We address the twin questions of how boundary geometry impacts flow profiles, and how one can engineer boundary conditions -- in particular the effective slip…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-11 Roderich Moessner , Nicolás Morales--Durán , Piotr Surówka , Piotr Witkowski

Electron hydrodynamics is an emerging framework that describes dynamics of interacting electron systems as conventional fluids. While evidence for hydrodynamic-like transport is reported in a variety of two-dimensional materials, precise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-25 Yihang Zeng , Haoyu Guo , Olivia M. Ghosh , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Leonid S. Levitov , Cory R. Dean

Hall effect in high-mobility 2D mesoscopic samples with hydrodynamic electron transport is related to manifestation of non-dissipative Hall viscosity at classical magnetic fields. However, the latter can be obscured by the particular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-14 A. A. Grigorev , A. N. Afanasiev

The concept of fluidic viscosity is ubiquitous in our everyday life and for it to arise the fluidic medium must necessarily form a continuum where macroscopic properties can emerge. While a powerful concept for tangible liquids,…

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Electron transport is conventionally determined by the momentum-relaxing scattering of electrons by the host solid and its excitations. The electrical resistance is set by geometrical factors and the resistivity, which is a microscopic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-04-27 Philip J. W. Moll , Pallavi Kushwaha , Nabhanila Nandi , Burkhard Schmidt , Andrew P. Mackenzie

In high-quality solid-state systems at low temperatures, the hydrodynamic or the ballistic regimes of heat and charge transport are realized in the electron and the phonon systems. In these regimes, the thermal and the electric conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 P. S. Alekseev , M. A. Semina

In conductors with a very small density of defects, electrons at low temperatures collide predominantly with the edges of a sample. Therefore, the ballistic regime of charge and heat transport is realized. The application of a perpendicular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 A. N. Afanasiev , P. S. Alekseev , A. A. Greshnov , M. A. Semina

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 the present study, we delineate the effect of introducing flow obstructions on streaming potential and energy conversion efficiency in a narrow fluidic confinement taking into consideration the wall hydrodynamic slip, finite ionic size,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-12-05 Tanoy Kahali , Antarip Poddar , Jayabrata Dhar , Suman Chakraborty

We report electrical and magneto transport measurements in mesoscopic size, two-dimensional (2D) electron gas in a GaAs quantum well. Remarkably, we find that the probe configuration and sample geometry strongly affects the temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-06 G. M. Gusev , A. D. Levin , E. V. Levinson , A. K. Bakarov

An increasing number of low carrier density materials exhibit a surprisingly large transport mean free path due to inefficient momentum relaxation. Consequently, charge transport in these systems is markedly non-ohmic but rather ballistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-10 Tobias Holder , Raquel Queiroz , Thomas Scaffidi , Navot Silberstein , Asaf Rozen , Joseph A. Sulpizio , Lior Ella , Shahal Ilani , Ady Stern

Motivated by experiments on a hydrodynamic regime in electron transport, we study the effect of an oscillating electric field in such a setting. We consider a long two-dimensional channel of width $L$, whose geometrical simplicity allows an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-02 Roderich Moessner , Piotr Surówka , Piotr Witkowski

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…

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