Turbulent flow in graphene

Kumar S. Gupta, Siddhartha Sen

Published 2009-11-03, updated 2010-06-05Version 2

We demonstrate the possibility of a turbulent flow of electrons in graphene in the hydrodynamic region, by calculating the corresponding turbulent probability density function. This is used to calculate the contribution of the turbulent flow to the conductivity within a quantum Boltzmann approach. The dependence of the conductivity on the system parameters arising from the turbulent flow is very different from that due to scattering.