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We investigate the dynamics of spin-nonequilibrium electron systems in the hydrodynamic flow regime, when the normal scattering processes, which conserve the total quasi-momentum of the system of electrons and quasi-particles that interact…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-17 R. N. Gurzhi , A. N. Kalinenko , A. I. Kopeliovich , P. V. Pyshkin , S. B. Rutkevich , A. V. Yanovsky , A. N. Yashin

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

We study hydrodynamic and ballistic transport regimes through nonlocal resistance measurements and high-resolution kinetic simulations in a mesoscopic structure on a high-mobility two-dimensional electron system in a GaAs/AlGaAs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Adbhut Gupta , J. J. Heremans , Gitansh Kataria , Mani Chandra , S. Fallahi , G. C. Gardner , M. J. Manfra

In very clean solid-state systems, where carrier-carrier interactions dominate over any other scattering mechanisms, the flow of electrons can be described within a hydrodynamic framework. In these cases, analogues of viscous fluid…

Viscous fluid in an ultrahigh-mobility two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells is systematically studied through measurements of negative magnetoresistance (NMR) and photoresistance under microwave radiation, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-04 Xinghao Wang , Peizhe Jia , Rui-Rui Du , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. Baldwin , K. W. West

It is shown that the ideal boundary between a perfectly conducting electrode and electron liquid state acts as a contact whose conductance per unit area is higher than the fundamental Sharvin conductance by a numerical coefficient $2…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-31 O. E. Raichev

In ultra-clean 2d materials electron viscosity is as important as Ohmic dissipation and electron transport exhibits hydrodynamic features. Using a simple framework of Brinkman equations we find that hydrodynamic electron flows exhibit a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Jarosław Pawłowski , Piotr Surówka , Konstantin Zarembo

Electron hydrodynamics typically emerges in electron fluids with a high electron-electron collision rate. However, new experiments with thin flakes of WTe$_2$ have revealed that other momentum-conserving scattering processes can replace the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-25 Yotam Wolf , Amit Aharon-Steinberg , Binghai Yan , Tobias Holder

Hydrodynamic transport effectively describes the collective dynamics of fluids with well-defined thermodynamic quantities. With enhanced electron-electron interactions at elevated temperatures, the collective behavior of electrons in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-25 Artem Talanov , Jonah Waissman , Aaron Hui , Brian Skinner , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Philip Kim

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

Modern two dimensional conductors with low defect densities and strong electron-electron scattering are favorable platforms for formation of a viscous fluid of conduction electrons. Electric properties of these systems are determined by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 A. N. Afanasiev , P. S. Alekseev

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

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

Electron hydrodynamics arises when momentum-relaxing scattering processes are slow compared to momentum-conserving ones. While the microscopic details necessary to satisfy this condition are material-specific, experimentally accessible…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-14 Georgios Varnavides , Adam S. Jermyn , Polina Anikeeva , Prineha Narang

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

In solids, frequent electron-electron collisions can induce collective, fluid-like electron transport. While this regime offers a powerful framework for exploring many-body phenomena, there is still a lack in functional electronic device…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Daniil I. Sarypov , Dmitriy A. Pokhabov , Arthur G. Pogosov , Evgeny Yu. Zhdanov , Andrey A. Shevyrin , Askhat K. Bakarov

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

The last few years have seen an explosion of interest in hydrodynamic effects in interacting electron systems in ultra-pure materials. In this paper we briefly review the recent advances, both theoretical and experimental, in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 B. N. Narozhny , I. V. Gornyi , A. D. Mirlin , J. Schmalian

Interactions of charge carriers with lattice vibrations, or phonons, play a critical role in unconventional electronic transport of metals and semimetals. Recent observations of phonon-mediated collective electron flow in bulk semimetals,…

In a recent paper [1] the scattering and transport of excess electrons in liquid argon in the hydrodynamic regime was investigated, generalizing the seminal works of Lekner and Cohen [2,3] with modern scattering theory techniques and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-10-02 G. J. Boyle , D. G. Cocks , W. J. Tattersall , R. P. McEachran , R. D. White