Revisiting the Acousto-Electric Effect
Classical Physics
2026-02-03 v2
Abstract
The goal of this paper is to provide a new perspective on the acousto-electric effect by deriving a wave equation for the acoustic field that is akin to Stokes 1845 viscous wave equation and in which the phonon-electron interaction provides the loss/gain term. We hope this new perspective may provide some insight into the workings of the acousto-electric effect, and we use it to build connections to other areas of research, in particular inertial motion superradiance and the Zel'dovich effect.
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@article{arxiv.2512.06860,
title = {Revisiting the Acousto-Electric Effect},
author = {Ewan M Wright and John Mack and Alex Wendt and Austin Burrington and Will Roberts and Dalton Anderson and Matt Eichefield},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.06860},
year = {2026}
}
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10 pages