Electron hydrodynamics

In different environments, electrons move through materials in drastically different ways. Sometimes, they can move like fluids through water pipes. But this is not so common, it requires a balance between electron-impurity and electron-electron scattering that can happen in certain temperature ranges in high-mobility materials like graphene. We study aspects of the transitions in transport regimes with changing conditions.

 

Relevant publications

Ballistic and hydrodynamic magnetotransport in narrow channels
T. Holder, R. Queiroz, T. Scaffidi, N. Silberstein, A. Rozen, J. A. Sulpizio, L. Ella, S. Ilani, A. Stern, Phys. Rev. B. 100, 245305 (2019).

Visualizing Poiseuille flow of hydrodynamic electrons
J.A. Sulpizio, L. Ella, A. Rozen, J. Birkbeck, D. Perello, D. Dutta, M. Ben-Shalom, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, T. Holder, R. Queiroz, A. Stern, T. Scaffidi, A.K. Geim, S. Ilani, Nature 576, 75–79 (2019)

Unified description of the classical Hall viscosity
T. Holder, R. Queiroz, A. Stern, Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 106801 (2019).