• 文献标题:   Graphene: A Nearly Perfect Fluid
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   MULLER M, SCHMALIAN J, FRITZ L
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
  • ISSN:   0031-9007
  • 通讯作者地址:   Abdus Salam Int Ctr Theoret Phys
  • 被引频次:   159
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.025301
  • 出版年:   2009

▎ 摘  要

Hydrodynamics and collision-dominated transport are crucial to understand the slow dynamics of many correlated quantum liquids. The ratio eta/s of the shear viscosity eta to the entropy density s is uniquely suited to determine how strongly the excitations in a quantum fluid interact. We determine eta/s in clean undoped graphene using a quantum kinetic theory. As a result of the quantum criticality of this system the ratio is smaller than in many other correlated quantum liquids and, interestingly, comes close to a lower bound conjectured in the context of the quark gluon plasma. We discuss possible consequences of the low viscosity, including preturbulent current flow.