Microscopic Models for Electron Hydrodynamics

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Abstract

A novel regime of transport whereby electrons behave like a viscous fluid has been the subject of intense study over the past few years. By using various kinetic and hydrodynamic models, we will study the conditions under which such a regime can be obtained and the experimental signatures one should look for. We will show in particular that the viscous Hall effect is a very useful probe of hydrodynamic effects and that the interplay of restricted geometries and applied magnetic fields leads to extremely rich physics.

*The authors acknowledge support from the Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems initiative of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (T. S.) and NSF DMR-1507141 and a Simons Investigatorship (J.E.M.). We also acknowledge the support of the Max Planck Society and the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Res

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Presenters

  • Thomas Scaffidi

    • Physics, Univ of California - Berkeley
    • Physics, University of California, Berkeley
    • Univ of California - Berkeley
    • University of Oxford

Authors

  • Thomas Scaffidi

    • Physics, Univ of California - Berkeley
    • Physics, University of California, Berkeley
    • Univ of California - Berkeley
    • University of Oxford

  • Nabhanila Nandi

    • Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids

  • Burkhard Schmidt

    • Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids

  • Andrew P. Mackenzie

    • Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids

  • Joel Moore

    • Physics, Univ of California - Berkeley
    • Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    • Univ of California - Berkeley
    • Physics, University of California, Berkeley
    • University of California Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    • UC Berkeley