Freely flowing currents and electric field expulsion in viscous electronics

Abstract

Electronic fluids bring into hydrodynamics a new setting: equipotential flow sources embedded inside the fluid. Here we show that nonlocal relation between current and electric field due to momentum-conserving inter-particle collisions leads to a total or partial field expulsion from such flows. That results in freely flowing currents in the bulk and boundary jump in electric potential at current-injecting electrodes. We derive the appropriate boundary conditions, analyze current distribution in free flows, discuss how the field expulsion depends upon geometry of the electrode, and link the phenomenon to breakdown of conformal invariance.

5 pages, 2 figures

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