Vortices produced and studied in electron fluids

Gregory Falkovich, Leonid S. Levitov

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Abstract

Swirling vortices have been directly observed in a flow of electric current for the first time. Unlike conventional viscous fluids, collective fluid-like behaviour in this case is not caused by particle-particle collisions, but results from a previously unidentified mechanism involving single electrons scattering from material surfaces at small angles.Flows of electrons have now been shown to contain swirling whirlpools like those found in viscous fluids - and physicists have been figuring out what caused them.
Original languageEnglish
Number of pages2
JournalNature
DOIs
StatePublished - 6 Jul 2022

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