Event Dates:
Friday, March 16, 2018 - 10:30am
CTQM Seminar Type:
- Related Seminar Series
Speaker Name(s):
Thomas Scaffidi
Speaker Affiliation(s):
University of California, Berkeley
Abstract, Event Details:
Wolfgang Pauli called solid-state physics "the physics of dirt effects", and this name might appear well-deserved at first sight since transport properties are more often than not set by extrinsic properties, like impurities. In this talk, I will present solid-state systems in which electrons behave like a hydrodynamic fluid, and for which transport properties are instead set by intrinsic properties, like the viscosity. This new regime of transport opens the way for a “viscous electronics”, and provides a new angle to study how quantum mechanics can constrain and/or enrich hydrodynamics.