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 …

Hydrodynamic electronic transport

L Fritz, T Scaffidi - Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics, 2024 - annualreviews.org
The “flow” of electric currents and heat in standard metals is diffusive with electronic motion
randomized by impurities. However, for ultraclean metals, electrons can flow like water with …

Topologically crafted spatiotemporal vortices in acoustics

H Zhang, Y Sun, J Huang, B Wu, Z Yang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Vortices in fluids and gases have piqued the human interest for centuries. Development of
classical-wave physics and quantum mechanics highlighted wave vortices characterized by …

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 …

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 …

Demonstration and imaging of cryogenic magneto-thermoelectric cooling in a van der Waals semimetal

T Völkl, A Aharon-Steinberg, T Holder, E Alpern… - Nature Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Attaining viable thermoelectric cooling at cryogenic temperatures is of considerable
fundamental and technological interest for electronics and quantum materials applications …

Designing turbulence with entangled vortices

W Shen, J Yao, Y Yang - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2024 - pnas.org
Matter entanglement is a common chaotic structure found in both quantum and classical
systems. For classical turbulence, viscous vortices are like sinews in fluid flows, storing and …

Twisting vortex lines regularize Navier-Stokes turbulence

D Buaria, JM Lawson, M Wilczek - Science Advances, 2024 - science.org
Fluid flows are intrinsically characterized via the topology and dynamics of underlying vortex
lines. Turbulence in common fluids like water and air, mathematically described by the …

Linear-in-temperature conductance in two-dimensional electron fluids

S Kryhin, Q Hong, L Levitov - Physical Review B, 2025 - APS
Linear temperature dependence of transport coefficients in metals is often ascribed to non-
Fermi-liquid physics. Here we demonstrate the T-linear behavior of nonlocal conductivity in …

Electronic Poiseuille flow in hexagonal boron nitride encapsulated graphene field effect transistors

W Huang, T Paul, K Watanabe, T Taniguchi… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
Electron-electron interactions in graphene are sufficiently strong to induce a correlated and
momentum-conserving flow such that charge carriers behave similarly to the Hagen …