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Hydrodynamic behaviour of electrons on the surface of superfluid helium

Research Project

Project/Area Number 18K13506
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Review Section Basic Section 13030:Magnetism, superconductivity and strongly correlated systems-related
Research InstitutionOkinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University

Principal Investigator

Badrutdinov Alexander  沖縄科学技術大学院大学, メカニカルエンジニアリング&マイクロファブリケーション・サポートセクション, ナノファブリケーション サポート エキスパート (30727540)

Project Period (FY) 2018-04-01 – 2020-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2019)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,770,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥870,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥600,000)
KeywordsElectrons on helium / 2D electron system / Electron viscosity / Polaron / electron viscosity / polaron / electrons on helium / electron hydrodynamics
Outline of Final Research Achievements

The original goal of the project was to demonstrate signatures of hydrodynamic behavior of electrons on the surface of superfluid helium, as this two-dimensional electron system looked particularly appealing for this purpose. As a result, we observed a novel transport regime in the system, however, of a different origin. Surface electrons are known to couple to surface capillary waves of helium, forming polaronic particles. We studied the transport of surface electrons through a microchannel structure in which the charge flow splits into two branches, one flowing straight and one turned at 90 degrees. According to Ohm’s law, an equal number of charges should flow into each branch, however, when the polaronic particles have sufficiently large effective mass, all the charge follows the straight path, due to momentum conservation. The underlying physical picture is that electrons are carried along the straight path by surface waves, which tend to propagate straight.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

Our result should have wide academic impact, as it is relevant to a variety of polaronic-like systems.
In addition, possibility to use surface waves on helium to carry electrons without employing electric fields is interesting in the context of mobile spin qubits based on electrons on helium.

Report

(3 results)
  • 2019 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (4 results)

All 2020 2019 2018

All Journal Article (3 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results,  Peer Reviewed: 3 results,  Open Access: 1 results) Presentation (1 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results)

  • [Journal Article] Unidirectional charge transport via ripplonic polarons in a three-terminal microchannel device2020

    • Author(s)
      A. O. Badrutdinov, D. G. Rees, J. Y. Lin, A. V. Smorodin, D. Konstantinov
    • Journal Title

      Physical Review Letters

      Volume: 124 Issue: 12 Pages: 126803-126803

    • DOI

      10.1103/physrevlett.124.126803

    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Transport Properties of a Quasi-1D Wigner Solid on Liquid Helium Confined in a Microchannel with Periodic Potential2019

    • Author(s)
      J.-Y. Lin, A. V. Smorodin, A. O. Badrutdinov, D. Konstantinov
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Low Temperature Physics

      Volume: 195 Issue: 3-4 Pages: 289-299

    • DOI

      10.1007/s10909-018-2089-7

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Sliding of an electron crystal of finite size on the surface of superfluid 4He confined in a microchannel2018

    • Author(s)
      J.-Y. Lin, A. V. Smorodin, A. O. Badrutdinov, D. Konstantinov
    • Journal Title

      Physical Review B

      Volume: 98 Issue: 8 Pages: 085412-085412

    • DOI

      10.1103/physrevb.98.085412

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] Non-ohmic currents of Wigner solid on helium in 3-terminal microchannel structure2019

    • Author(s)
      A. O. Badrutdinov, D. Rees, A. V. Smorodin, J. Y. Lin, D. Konstantinov
    • Organizer
      International Symposium on Quantum Fluids and Solids
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research

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Published: 2018-04-23   Modified: 2021-02-19  

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