Philip Moll
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany
Date
6 December 2017
Host
Titus Neupert
Title
Hydrodynamic Flow of Electrons
Abstract
When we talk about the flow of electric currents, we unwittingly carry in our language the early idea that electrons in a metal behave akin to a liquid. This analogy ultimately fails as the momentum of electrons in a crystal is not conserved. Yet materials with strong electronic interactions and long mean free paths can exhibit a quasi-conserved electronic momentum, starting an experimental hunt for hydrodynamic behavior of electrons in solids.
Philip Moll (left) with Titus Neupert