Theoretical physicist
Quantum transport · kinetic theory · electron hydrodynamics
Ph.D. in Physics, University of California San Diego (2026) · Advisor: Michael M. Fogler
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I study when spatial transport measurements can distinguish microscopic kinetic dynamics from an effective fluid description. This is a general inference problem: which microscopic information remains recoverable from finite-resolution maps of voltage, current, and dissipation? My work uses semiclassical Boltzmann kinetics, electron hydrodynamics, magnetotransport, and quantum Hall response in two-dimensional electron systems.
Research
Fluid theories retain only a few slow moments of the electron distribution. I identify finite-wave-number response that stress-level hydrodynamics omits, then derive its higher-gradient structure, fourth-order closure obstruction, and chiral nonlocal completion.
The symmetry of a drive can make ordinary local heating vanish at one point in a device. In a sixfold geometry, Ohmic and rank-two viscous dissipation vanish there, leaving a higher angular harmonic as the leading signal in a local dissipation map.
Spatial probes have finite resolution, so not every transport coefficient is identifiable from a measured image. I test identifiability of thermoelectric Hall contrast and Hall-viscous response once resolution, boundaries, and higher-gradient nuisance terms enter.
Rare-event and small-denominator mechanisms behind heavy-tailed trajectory geometry, including endpoint conditions, crossovers, and finite observation windows.
Papers
2026
Under review at Physica B (2026)
A symmetry-selected sixfold drive creates a local null of ordinary hydrodynamic dissipation while retaining a higher-harmonic kinetic contribution as the leading local signal.
2026
Under review at Physical Review B (2026)
Identifies the fourth-order current operator omitted by stress-level hydrodynamic closure and follows its chiral finite-wave-number completion toward nonlocal transport.
2026
Under review at Physica E (2026)
Thermoelectric-to-electrical Hall contrast and finite-band identifiability of Hall-viscous response in scanning-probe measurements.
2026
2026
Physical Review Letters 136, 136301 (2026); Editors’ Suggestion
Scanning tunneling potentiometry of the crossover from diffusive spiraling flow to nonlocal cyclotron-scale structure near a graphene p–n junction.