Investigation of Planckian behavior in a high-conductivity oxide: PdCrO$_2$
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| author | Zhakina, Elina Daou, Ramzy Maignan, Antoine McGuinness, Philippa H. König, Markus Rosner, Helge Kim, Seo-Jin Khim, Seunghyun Grasset, Romain Konczykowski, Marcin Tulipman, Evyatar Mendez-Valderrama, Juan Felipe Chowdhury, Debanjan Berg, Erez Mackenzie, Andrew P. |
| author_facet | Zhakina, Elina Daou, Ramzy Maignan, Antoine McGuinness, Philippa H. König, Markus Rosner, Helge Kim, Seo-Jin Khim, Seunghyun Grasset, Romain Konczykowski, Marcin Tulipman, Evyatar Mendez-Valderrama, Juan Felipe Chowdhury, Debanjan Berg, Erez Mackenzie, Andrew P. |
| contents | The layered delafossite metal PdCrO$_2$ is a natural heterostructure of highly conductive Pd layers Kondo coupled to localized spins in the adjacent Mott insulating CrO$_2$ layers. At high temperatures $T$ it has a $T$-linear resistivity which is not seen in the isostructural but non-magnetic PdCoO$_2$. The strength of the Kondo coupling is known, as-grown crystals are extremely high purity and the Fermi surface is both very simple and experimentally known. It is therefore an ideal material platform in which to investigate 'Planckian metal' physics. We do this by means of controlled introduction of point disorder, measurement of the thermal conductivity and Lorenz ratio and studying the sources of its high temperature entropy. The $T$-linear resistivity is seen to be due mainly to elastic scattering and to arise from a sum of several scattering mechanisms. Remarkably, this sum leads to a scattering rate within 10$\%$ of the Planckian value of $k_BT/$$\hbar$. |
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| spellingShingle | Investigation of Planckian behavior in a high-conductivity oxide: PdCrO$_2$ Zhakina, Elina Daou, Ramzy Maignan, Antoine McGuinness, Philippa H. König, Markus Rosner, Helge Kim, Seo-Jin Khim, Seunghyun Grasset, Romain Konczykowski, Marcin Tulipman, Evyatar Mendez-Valderrama, Juan Felipe Chowdhury, Debanjan Berg, Erez Mackenzie, Andrew P. Strongly Correlated Electrons The layered delafossite metal PdCrO$_2$ is a natural heterostructure of highly conductive Pd layers Kondo coupled to localized spins in the adjacent Mott insulating CrO$_2$ layers. At high temperatures $T$ it has a $T$-linear resistivity which is not seen in the isostructural but non-magnetic PdCoO$_2$. The strength of the Kondo coupling is known, as-grown crystals are extremely high purity and the Fermi surface is both very simple and experimentally known. It is therefore an ideal material platform in which to investigate 'Planckian metal' physics. We do this by means of controlled introduction of point disorder, measurement of the thermal conductivity and Lorenz ratio and studying the sources of its high temperature entropy. The $T$-linear resistivity is seen to be due mainly to elastic scattering and to arise from a sum of several scattering mechanisms. Remarkably, this sum leads to a scattering rate within 10$\%$ of the Planckian value of $k_BT/$$\hbar$. |
| title | Investigation of Planckian behavior in a high-conductivity oxide: PdCrO$_2$ |
| topic | Strongly Correlated Electrons |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10631 |