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Graphene: A Nearly Perfect Fluid

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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 103, Issue 2, Pages -

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AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.025301

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  1. SNF [PA002-113151, PP002-118932]
  2. Iowa State University [DEAC02-07CH11358]
  3. DFG [Fr 2627/1-1]
  4. NSF [DMR-0757145]

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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.

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