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 …

Observation of current whirlpools in graphene at room temperature

ML Palm, C Ding, WS Huxter, T Taniguchi, K Watanabe… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Electron–electron interactions in high-mobility conductors can give rise to transport
signatures resembling those described by classical hydrodynamics. Using a nanoscale …

Long distance electron-electron scattering detected with point contacts

LV Ginzburg, Y Wu, MP Röösli, PR Gomez… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
We measure electron transport through point contacts in an electron gas in AlGaAs/GaAs
heterostructures and graphene for a range of temperatures, magnetic fields, and electron …

Micromagnets dramatically enhance effects of viscous hydrodynamic flow in a two-dimensional electron fluid

JN Engdahl, AC Keser, OP Sushkov - Physical Review Research, 2022 - APS
The hydrodynamic behavior of electron fluids in a certain range of temperatures and
densities is well established in graphene and in two-dimensional semiconductor …

Helical conducting edge states in narrow-gap semiconductors without band inversion

WK Lou, W Yang, K Chang - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Band inversion accompanied by the emergence of gapless and helical edge states at the
boundary is a hallmark of 2D topological insulators. However, a recent experiment reports …

Magnetic response of a two-dimensional viscous electron fluid

AC Keser, O Sushkov - Turkish Journal of Physics, 2023 - journals.tubitak.gov.tr
It has been established that the Coulomb interactions can transform the electron gas into a
viscous fluid. This fluid is realized in a number of platforms, including graphene and two …

Eliminating the channel resistance in two-dimensional systems using viscous charge flow

W Huang, T Paul, ML Perrin, M Calame - 2D Materials, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Driven by the pursuit of high-performance electronic devices and the exploration of quantum
phenomena, research into two-dimensional (2D) systems and materials, has unveiled their …

Signatures of electronic ordering in transport in graphene flat bands

A Panigrahi, L Levitov - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Recently, a wide family of electronic orders was unveiled in graphene flat bands, such as
spin-and valley-polarized phases as well as nematic momentum-polarized phases …

Superballistic boundary conductance and hydrodynamic transport in microstructures

OE Raichev - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
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 …