Events on Thursday, December 18th, 2014
- Hydrodynamic Coulomb and Hall drag of strongly correlated electron liquids
- Time: 10:00 am - 11:00 am
- Place: Chamberlin 5310
- Speaker: Alex Levchenko, Michigan State University
- Abstract: We develop a theory of drag resistivity in ultraclean double layers with strongly correlated carriers. In the regime where the equilibration length of the electron liquid is shorter than the interlayer spacing the main contribution to the drag arises from hydrodynamic density fluctuations. The latter consist of plasmons driven by fluctuating longitudinal stresses, and diffusive modes caused by temperature fluctuations and thermal expansion of the electron liquid. We express the drag resistivity tensor in terms of the kinetic coefficients of the electron fluid. Our results are nonperturbative in interaction strength and do not assume Fermi-liquid behavior of the electron liquid.
- Host: Vavilov