Hydrodynamic and Ballistic AC transport in 2D Fermi Liquids
arXiv:1803.10037 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.99.165409
Abstract
Electron transport in clean 2D systems with weak electron-phonon (e-ph) coupling can transition from an Ohmic to a ballistic or a hydrodynamic regime. The ballistic regime occurs when electron-electron (e-e) scattering is weak whereas the hydrodynamic regime arises when this scattering is strong. Despite this difference, we find that vortices and a negative nonlocal resistance believed to be quintessentially hydrodynamic are equally characteristic of the ballistic regime. These non-Ohmic regimes cannot be distinguished in DC transport without changing experimental conditions. Further, as our kinetic calculations show, the hydrodynamic regime in DC transport is highly fragile and is wiped out by even sparse disorder and e-ph scattering. We show that microwave-frequency AC sources by contrast readily excite hydrodynamic modes with current vortices that are robust to disorder and e-ph scattering. Indeed, current reversals in the non-Ohmic regimes occur via repeated vortex generation and mergers through reconnections, as in classical 2D fluids. Crucially, AC sources give rise to strong correlations across the entire device that unambiguously distinguish all regimes. These correlations in the form of nonlocal current-voltage and voltage-voltage phases directly check for the presence of a nonlocal current-voltage relation signifying the onset of non-Ohmic behavior as well as also for the dominance of bulk interactions, needed to confirm the presence of a hydrodynamic regime. We use these probes to demarcate all regimes in an experimentally realizable graphene device and find that the ballistic regime has a much larger extent in parameter space than the hydrodynamic regime.
arXiv comment11 pages, 8 figures, 2 movies, 2 appendices. V2 expands on V1 and includes several new results: (a) current vortices in ballistic regime, (b) degeneracy of hydrodynamic and ballistic regimes in DC transport, (c) correlation signatures to distinguish hydrodynamic and ballistic regimes in AC transport
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