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Nonlocal transport and the hydrodynamic shear viscosity in graphene

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Article number165433
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>15/10/2015
<mark>Journal</mark>Physical review B
Issue number16
Volume92
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

Motivated by recent experimental progress in preparing encapsulated graphene sheets with ultrahigh mobilities up to room temperature, we present a theoretical study of dc transport in doped graphene in the hydrodynamic regime. By using the continuity and Navier-Stokes equations, we demonstrate analytically that measurements of nonlocal resistances in multiterminal Hall bar devices can be used to extract the hydrodynamic shear viscosity of the two-dimensional (2D) electron liquid in graphene. We also discuss how to probe the viscosity-dominated hydrodynamic transport regime by scanning probe potentiometry and magnetometry. Our approach enables measurements of the viscosity of any 2D electron liquid in the hydrodynamic transport regime.