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Negative local resistance caused by viscous electron backflow in graphene

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arxiv 1509.04165 v3 pith:ZHZPMXSQ submitted 2015-09-14 cond-mat.str-el cond-mat.mes-hall

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Graphene hosts a unique electron system in which electron-phonon scattering is extremely weak but electron-electron collisions are sufficiently frequent to provide local equilibrium above liquid nitrogen temperature. Under these conditions, electrons can behave as a viscous liquid and exhibit hydrodynamic phenomena similar to classical liquids. Here we report strong evidence for this transport regime. We find that doped graphene exhibits an anomalous (negative) voltage drop near current injection contacts, which is attributed to the formation of submicrometer-size whirlpools in the electron flow. The viscosity of graphene's electron liquid is found to be ~0.1 m$^2$ /s, an order of magnitude larger than that of honey, in agreement with many-body theory. Our work shows a possibility to study electron hydrodynamics using high quality graphene.

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  1. Joule-Thomson Cooling in Graphene

    cond-mat.mes-hall 2019-08 reject novelty 6.0 of 10

    A sign error in Eq. (5) makes the paper's predicted Fermi-liquid cooling actually heating, invalidating the central claim.

  2. Sign of viscous magnetoresistance in electron fluids

    cond-mat.str-el 2019-08 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

    Bulk viscous electron flow has positive magnetoresistance for arbitrary inhomogeneity in one-dimensional periodic models and in weakly inhomogeneous ballistic-to-hydrodynamic crossover calculations, unlike narrow channels.

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