Charge transport and hydrodynamics in materials

G Varnavides, A Yacoby, C Felser… - Nature Reviews Materials, 2023 - nature.com
As high-quality single-crystal materials used in electronic devices approach the microscale
and nanoscale, charge-transport phenomena in these devices result in inhomogeneous …

Direct observation of vortices in an electron fluid

A Aharon-Steinberg, T Völkl, A Kaplan, AK Pariari… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Vortices are the hallmarks of hydrodynamic flow. Strongly interacting electrons in ultrapure
conductors can display signatures of hydrodynamic behaviour, including negative non-local …

Imaging the breaking of electrostatic dams in graphene for ballistic and viscous fluids

ZJ Krebs, WA Behn, S Li, KJ Smith, K Watanabe… - Science, 2023 - science.org
The charge carriers in a material can, under special circumstances, behave as a viscous
fluid. In this work, we investigated such behavior by using scanning tunneling potentiometry …

Hydrodynamic and Ballistic Transport over Large Length Scales in

A Gupta, JJ Heremans, G Kataria, M Chandra… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We study hydrodynamic and ballistic transport regimes through nonlocal resistance
measurements and high-resolution kinetic simulations in a mesoscopic structure on a high …

Hydrodynamic charge transport in an GaAs/AlGaAs ultrahigh-mobility two-dimensional electron gas

X Wang, P Jia, RR Du, LN Pfeiffer, KW Baldwin… - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Viscous fluid in an ultrahigh-mobility two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in GaAs/AlGaAs
quantum wells is systematically studied through measurements of negative …

[HTML][HTML] Stokes flow around an obstacle in viscous two-dimensional electron liquid

GM Gusev, AS Jaroshevich, AD Levin, ZD Kvon… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
The electronic analog of the Poiseuille flow is the transport in a narrow channel with
disordered edges that scatter electrons in a diffuse way. In the hydrodynamic regime, the …

Emission of plasmons by drifting Dirac electrons: A hallmark of hydrodynamic transport

D Svintsov - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
Direct current in clean semiconductors and metals was recently shown to obey the laws of
hydrodynamics in a broad range of temperatures and sample dimensions. However, the …

Viscosity of two-dimensional electrons

PS Alekseev, AP Dmitriev - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
The hydrodynamic regime of electron transport has been recently realized in conductors
with ultralow densities of defects. Although relaxation processes in two-dimensional (2D) …

Transverse magnetosonic waves and viscoelastic resonance in a two-dimensional highly viscous electron fluid

PS Alekseev, AP Alekseeva - Physical review letters, 2019 - APS
In high-mobility materials, conduction electrons can form a viscous fluid at low temperatures.
We demonstrate that in a high-frequency flow of a two-dimensional electron fluid in a …

Diffusion of photoexcited holes in a viscous electron fluid

YA Pusep, MD Teodoro, V Laurindo Jr… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
The diffusion of photogenerated holes is studied in a high-mobility mesoscopic GaAs
channel where electrons exhibit hydrodynamic properties. It is shown that the injection of …