Homogenization of hydrodynamic transport in Dirac fluids

DOI10.1063/5.0021961MaRDI QIDQ5148668zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Guillaume Bal, Andrew Lucas, Mitchell Luskin

Publication date 4 February 2021

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.10790

Dirac fluids, hydrodynamic transport metals,

Abstract: Large-scale electrical and thermal currents in ordinary metals are well approximated by effective medium theory: global transport properties are governed by the solution to homogenized coupled diffusion equations. In some metals, including the Dirac fluid of nearly charge neutral graphene, microscopic transport is not governed by diffusion, but by a more complicated set of linearized hydrodynamic equations, which form a system of degenerate elliptic equations coupled with the Stokes equation for fluid velocity. In sufficiently inhomogeneous media, these hydrodynamic equations reduce to homogenized diffusion equations. We re-cast the hydrodynamic transport equations as the infimum of a functional over conserved currents, and present a functional framework to model and compute the homogenized diffusion tensor relating electrical and thermal currents to charge and temperature gradients. We generalize to this system two well-known results in homogenization theory: Tartar's proof of local convergence to the homogenized theory in periodic and highly oscillatory media, and sub-additivity of the above functional in random media with highly oscillatory, stationary and ergodic coefficients.

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