Superballistic Conduction in Hydrodynamic Antidot Graphene Superlattices

Viscous electron flow exhibits exotic signatures such as superballistic conduction. In order to observe hydrodynamics effects, a 2D device where the current flow is as inhomogeneous as possible is desirable. To this end, we build three antidot graphene superlattices with different hole diameters. We...

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Main Authors: Jorge Estrada-Álvarez, Juan Salvador-Sánchez, Ana Pérez-Rodríguez, Carlos Sánchez-Sánchez, Vito Clericò, Daniel Vaquero, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Enrique Diez, Francisco Domínguez-Adame, Mario Amado, Elena Díaz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2025-02-01
Series:Physical Review X
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.15.011039
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Summary:Viscous electron flow exhibits exotic signatures such as superballistic conduction. In order to observe hydrodynamics effects, a 2D device where the current flow is as inhomogeneous as possible is desirable. To this end, we build three antidot graphene superlattices with different hole diameters. We measure their electrical properties at various temperatures and under the effect of a perpendicular magnetic field. We find an enhanced superballistic effect, suggesting the effectiveness of the geometry at bending the electron flow. In addition, superballistic conduction, which is related to a transition from a noncollective to a collective regime of transport, behaves nonmonotonically with the magnetic field. We also analyze the device resistance as a function of the size of the antidot superlattice to find characteristic scaling laws describing the different transport regimes. We prove that the antidot superlattice is a convenient geometry for realizing hydrodynamic flow and provide valuable explanations for the technologically relevant effects of superballistic conduction and scaling laws.
ISSN:2160-3308