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arxiv: 2605.26226 · v1 · pith:HDAPUD44new · submitted 2026-05-25 · ❄️ cond-mat.str-el

Hydrodynamic Cooperons in Electron Fluids: Schwinger--Keldysh Derivation and Quantum Corrections to Magnetoresistance

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keywords hydrodynamiccorrectionsassociatedelectronschwinger--keldyshself-energystresstheory
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We develop a Schwinger--Keldysh effective theory for quantum-interference corrections in a two-dimensional electron system in the hydrodynamic regime. Starting from the clean hydrodynamic fixed point, we introduce a minimal random-friction disorder model that generates a finite momentum-relaxation time within the self-consistent Born approximation. The disorder-averaged theory then allows us to construct a hydrodynamic Cooperon and to compute the associated self-energy corrections to the collective modes. Conservation laws protect the density and momentum sectors, so that the leading quantum-coherence correction is forced into the spin-two stress sector. The associated stress self-energy renormalizes the shear viscosity and modifies both the Gurzhi response and its low-field magnetohydrodynamic signatures.

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