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The Lorenz ratio as a guide to scattering contributions to transport in strongly correlated metals

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Sun,  Fei
Physics of Quantum Materials, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Max Planck Society;

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Mishra,  Simli
Physics of Quantum Materials, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Max Planck Society;

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Stockert,  Ulrike
Physics of Quantum Materials, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Max Planck Society;

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Hassinger,  Elena
Physics of Unconventional Metals and Superconductors, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Max Planck Society;

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Mackenzie,  Andrew P.
Andrew Mackenzie, Physics of Quantum Materials, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Max Planck Society;

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Sunko,  Veronika
Physics of Quantum Materials, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Max Planck Society;

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Sun, F., Mishra, S., Stockert, U., Daou, R., Kikugawa, N., Perry, R. S., et al. (2024). The Lorenz ratio as a guide to scattering contributions to transport in strongly correlated metals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121(35): e2318159121, pp. 1-6. doi:10.1073/pnas.2318159121.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000F-CD40-2
Abstract
In many physical situations in which many-body assemblies exist at temperature T, a characteristic quantum-mechanical time scale of approximately ℏ∕kBT can be identified in both theory and experiment, leading to speculation that it may be the shortest meaningful time in such circumstances. This behavior can be investigated by probing the scattering rate of electrons in a broad class of materials often referred to as “strongly correlated metals”. It is clear that in some cases only electron–electron scattering can be its cause, while in others it arises from high-temperature scattering of electrons from quantized lattice vibrations, i.e., phonons. In metallic oxides, which are among the most studied materials, analysis of electrical transport does not satisfactorily identify the relevant scattering mechanism at “high” temperatures near room temperature. We therefore employ a contactless optical method to measure thermal diffusivity in two Ru-based layered perovskites, Sr3Ru2O7 and Sr2RuO4, and use the measurements to extract the dimensionless Lorenz ratio. By comparing our results to the literature data on both conventional and unconventional metals, we show how the analysis of high-temperature thermal transport can both give important insight into dominant scattering mechanisms and be offered as a stringent test of theories attempting to explain anomalous scattering. Copyright © 2024 the Author(s). Published by PNAS.