articleAnnual Review of Condensed Matter PhysicsJul 29, 2010GREEN OA

Nematic Fermi Fluids in Condensed Matter Physics

EFEduardo FradkinSASteven A. KivelsonMJMichael J. LawlerJPJames P. EisensteinAPAndrew P. Mackenzie

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Stanford University · +5 more institutions

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Abstract

Correlated electron fluids can exhibit a startling array of complex phases, among which one of the more surprising is the electron nematic, a translationally invariant metallic phase with a spontaneously generated spatial anisotropy. Classical nematics generally occur in liquids of rod-like molecules; given that electrons are point like, the initial theoretical motivation for contemplating electron nematics came from thinking of the electron fluid as a quantum melted electron crystal, rather than a strongly interacting descendent of a Fermi gas. Dramatic transport experiments in ultra-clean quantum Hall systems in 1999 and in Sr 3 Ru 2 O 7 in a strong magnetic field in 2007 established that such phases exist…

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  • EF
    Eduardo FradkinCorresponding

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  • SA
    Steven A. Kivelson

    Stanford University

  • MJ
    Michael J. Lawler

    Binghamton University, Cornell University

  • JP
    James P. Eisenstein

    California Institute of Technology

  • AP
    Andrew P. Mackenzie

    University of St Andrews, Scottish Universities Physics Alliance

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  • Liquid crystal
  • Electron
  • Fermi liquid theory
  • Magnetic field
  • Cuprate
  • Quantum
  • Fermi gas
  • Quantum Hall effect
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