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PtSn4中电子-声子流体的热电特性

Thermoelectric signatures of the electron-phonon fluid in PtSn4

Chenguang Fu, Thomas Scaffidi, Jonah Waissman, Yan Sun, Rana Saha, Sarah J. Watzman, Abhay K. Srivastava, Guowei Li, Walter Schnelle, Peter Werner, Machteld E. … 展开作者

Chenguang Fu, Thomas Scaffidi, Jonah Waissman, Yan Sun, Rana Saha, Sarah J. Watzman, Abhay K. Srivastava, Guowei Li, Walter Schnelle, Peter Werner, Machteld E. Kamminga, Subir Sachdev, Stuart S. P. Parkin, Sean A. Hartnoll, Claudia Felser, Johannes Gooth

摘要:

在大多数材料中,输运可以通过不同种类的准粒子(如电子和声子)的运动来描述。然而,准粒子之间的强相互作用会导致集体行为,包括粘性流体动力学流动的可能性。在电子和声子的情况下,预期电子-声子流体表现出强的声子拖曳传输特征和极低的热导率。狄拉克半金属PtSn 4在低温下具有非常低的电阻率,并且在低温热电势中显示出明显的声子拖曳峰;因此,它是用于承载流体动力学电子-声子流体的优秀候选者。在这里,我们报告的温度和磁场的纵向和霍尔的电介电常数,热电势和PtSn 4的热导率的依赖性的测量。我们确认声子阻力峰的热电势在14 K附近,并观察到的洛仑兹比低于索末菲值的并发故障。这两个事实是预期的电子声子流体与准守恒的总动量。动量守恒和动量弛豫散射时间尺度之间的层次结构是通过测量的磁场的依赖性的电气和霍尔电阻率和热导率得到证实。这些结果表明,PtSn 4表现出流体动力学输运的关键特征。

英文摘要:

In most materials, transport can be described by the motion of distinct species of quasiparticles, such as electrons and phonons. Strong interactions between quasiparticles, however, can lead to collective behaviour, including the possibility of viscous hydrodynamic flow. In the case of electrons and phonons, an electron-phonon fluid is expected to exhibit strong phonon-drag transport signatures and an anomalously low thermal conductivity. The Dirac semi-metal PtSn4 has a very low resistivity at low temperatures and shows a pronounced phonon drag peak in the low temperature thermopower; it is therefore an excellent candidate for hosting a hydrodynamic electron-phonon fluid. Here we report measurements of the temperature and magnetic field dependence of the longitudinal and Hall electrical resistivities, the thermopower and the thermal conductivity of PtSn4. We confirm a phonon drag peak in the thermopower near 14 K and observe a concurrent breakdown of the Lorenz ratio below the Sommerfeld value. Both of these facts are expected for an electron-phonon fluid with a quasi-conserved total momentum. A hierarchy between momentum-conserving and momentum-relaxing scattering timescales is corroborated through measurements of the magnetic field dependence of the electrical and Hall resistivity and of the thermal conductivity. These results show that PtSn4 exhibits key features of hydrodynamic transport.

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