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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…

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We investigate the interactions of photoexcited carriers with lattice vibrations in thin films of the layered transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) WSe$_2$. Employing femtosecond electron diffraction with monocrystalline samples and first…

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Two-dimensional (2D) materials have shown great potential in applications as transistors, where thermal dissipation becomes crucial because of the increasing energy density. Although thermal conductivity of 2D materials has been extensively…

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The interplay between electronic interactions and disorder is neglected in the conventional Boltzmann theory of transport, yet can play an essential role in determining the resistivity of unconventional metals. When quasiparticles are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-10 Andrew Lucas , Sean A. Hartnoll

Magnetic materials are crucial for manipulating electron spin and magnetic fields, enabling applications in data storage, spintronics, charge transport, and energy conversion, while also providing insight into fundamental quantum phenomena.…

An original approach is suggested to analysis of full quantum Liouville equation for single electron (quantum particle) interacting with ideal phonon gas (harmonic boson thermostat). It is shown that under the thermodynamic limit this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-07-19 Yu. E. Kuzovlev

One of the main macroscopic differences between ordinary and highly viscous fluids is the lack of transverse sound in the first and possibility of its excitation in the second. In modern high-mobility conductors (Weyl semimetals,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-11 P. S. Alekseev , A. P. Alekseeva

Phonon hydrodynamics describes the motions of heat carriers (phonons) at sub-continuum scales: diffusive, ballistic, viscous, and vortical. In a previous paper, these behaviours were investigated within the framework of non-equilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-27 Liliana Restuccia , David Jou , Michal Pavelka

Using first-principles pseudopotential method and Boltzmann transport theory, we give a comprehensive understanding of the electronic and phonon transport properties of thermoelectric material BiCuSeO. By choosing proper hybrid functional…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-06-28 D. D. Fan , H. J. Liu , L. Cheng , J. Zhang , P. H. Jiang , J. Wei , J. H. Liang , J. Shi

In nearly compensated graphene, disorder-assisted electron-phonon scattering or "supercollisions" are responsible for both quasiparticle recombination and energy relaxation. Within the hydrodynamic approach, these processes contribute weak…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-30 B. N. Narozhny , I. V. Gornyi

Electric, thermal and thermoelectric transport in correlated electron systems probe different aspects of the many-body dynamics, and thus provide complementary information. These are well studied in the low- and high-temperature limits,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-19 Woo-Ram Lee , Alexander M. Finkel'stein , Karen Michaeli , Georg Schwiete

The rate of energy transfer between electrons and phonons is investigated by a first principles framework for electron temperatures up to $T_e=50000$ K while considering the lattice at ground state. Two typical but differently complex…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-03-08 Jia Zhang , Rui Qin , Wenjun Zhu , Jan Vorberger

Ultrafast laser measurements probe the non-equilibrium dynamics of excited electrons in metals with increasing temporal resolution. Electronic structure calculations can provide a detailed microscopic understanding of hot electron dynamics,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-08-12 Ana M. Brown , Ravishankar Sundararaman , Prineha Narang , William A. Goddard , Harry A. Atwater

We prove that a diagrammatic evaluation of the Kubo formula for the electronic transport conductivity due the exchange of bosonic excitations, in the usual conserving ladder approximation, yields a result consistent with the Boltzmann…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 D. Belitz , T. R. Kirkpatrick

A resonantly excited coherent phonon leads to a periodic oscillation of the atomic lattice in a crystal structure bringing the material into a non-equilibrium electronic configuration. Periodically oscillating quantum systems can be…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-01-31 Hannes Hübener , Umberto De Giovannini , Angel Rubio

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

Strongly interacting electrons can move in a neatly coordinated way, reminiscent of the movement of viscous fluids. Here we show that in viscous flows interactions facilitate transport, allowing conductance to exceed the fundamental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-04 Haoyu Guo , Ekin Ilseven , Gregory Falkovich , Leonid Levitov

In two-dimensional electron systems, plasmons are gapless and long-lived collective excitations of propagating charge density oscillations. We study the fluctuation mechanism of plasmon-assisted transport in the regime of electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-15 Dmitry Zverevich , Alex Levchenko

In the presence of interactions, electrons in condensed-matter systems can behave hydrodynamically, exhibiting phenomena associated with classical fluids, such as vortices and Poiseuille flow. In most conductors, electron-electron…

Viscous electronics is an emerging field dealing with systems in which strongly interacting electrons behave as a fluid. Electron viscous flows are governed by a nonlocal current-field relation which renders the spatial patterns of current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 Gregory Falkovich , Leonid Levitov