CM Video Seminar, Andy Lucas, Harvard, "Fluid dynamics of electrons in graphene"

Date
Oct 17, 2016, 1:15 pm2:30 pm
Location
PCTS Seminar Room

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Event Description
Although hydrodynamics is believed to be a universal limit for many interacting quantum systems, observing this regime is hard in ordinary metals. Thanks to recent developments in materials physics, graphene is a material where we should hope to observe multiple interesting hydrodynamic regimes. I will first discuss the indirect observation of electron fluid vorticity via negative nonlocal resistances in the Fermi liquid regime of doped graphene. I will follow up with a complementary experiment which discovers exotic thermal transport at the charge neutrality point, and argue that this is a signature of quasirelativistic hydrodynamics in the electron-hole plasma.