Temperature Dependence of Electron Viscosity in Superballistic GaAs Point Contacts

Abstract

Electron transport in suspended and non-suspended GaAs point contacts (PCs) of different widths is experimentally studied. The superballistic contribution to the conductance, that demonstrates a distinctive quadratic dependence on the PC width and temperature growth, is extracted from the experiment. The studied PCs are shown to be described in the framework of hydrodynamic electron flow a in wide temperature range. At low temperatures, $T$, the viscosity is found out to obey the law $1/T^2$ expected for 2D systems, while at higher temperatures it has the dependence $1/T$. Similar measurements performed after the suspension of PCs, i.e. their separation from substrate, show that the electron viscosity reduces in the whole temperature range, that indicates an enhanced electron-electron interaction in suspended structures.

7 pages, 4 figures

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