Orateur
Andrew Lucas
(University of Colorado Boulder)
Description
I will overview the theory of viscous electron fluids, describe why this regime is uncommon in real quantum materials (but still observable under the right conditions), and discuss some experimental signatures of viscous electron flow. I will explain why the detection of viscous electron flow reveals new information about electron interactions and scattering, that can be very difficult to deduce from bulk transport measurements alone. Electron liquids are in general anisotropic in real quantum materials, and I will review some of the potentially novel hydrodynamic phenomena that might be detected in future experiments in anisotropic metals.
