Phonon hydrodynamic regimes in sapphire

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Hauptverfasser: Kawabata, Takuya, Shimura, Kosuke, Ishii, Yuto, Koike, Minatsu, Yoshida, Kentaro, Yonehara, Shu, Yokoi, Kohei, Subedi, Alaska, Behnia, Kamran, Machida, Yo
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author Kawabata, Takuya
Shimura, Kosuke
Ishii, Yuto
Koike, Minatsu
Yoshida, Kentaro
Yonehara, Shu
Yokoi, Kohei
Subedi, Alaska
Behnia, Kamran
Machida, Yo
author_facet Kawabata, Takuya
Shimura, Kosuke
Ishii, Yuto
Koike, Minatsu
Yoshida, Kentaro
Yonehara, Shu
Yokoi, Kohei
Subedi, Alaska
Behnia, Kamran
Machida, Yo
contents When an ideal insulator is cooled, four regimes of thermal conductivity are expected to emerge one after another. Two of these, the Ziman and the Poiseuille, are hydrodynamic regimes in which collision among phonons are mostly Normal. It has been difficult to observe them, save for a few insulators with high levels of isotopic and chemical purity. Our thermal transport measurements, covering four decades of temperatures between 0.1 K and 900 K, reveal that sapphire displays all four regimes, despite its isotopic impurity. In the Ziman regime, the thermal conductivity exponentially increases attaining an amplitude as large as 35,000 W/Km. We show that the peak thermal conductivity of ultra-pure, simple insulators, including diamond, silicon and solid helium, is set by a universal scaling depending on isotropic purity. The thermal conductivity of sapphire is an order of magnitude higher than what is expected by this scaling. We argue that this may be caused by the proximity of optical and acoustic phonon modes, as a consequence of the large number of atoms in the primitive cell.
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spellingShingle Phonon hydrodynamic regimes in sapphire
Kawabata, Takuya
Shimura, Kosuke
Ishii, Yuto
Koike, Minatsu
Yoshida, Kentaro
Yonehara, Shu
Yokoi, Kohei
Subedi, Alaska
Behnia, Kamran
Machida, Yo
Materials Science
When an ideal insulator is cooled, four regimes of thermal conductivity are expected to emerge one after another. Two of these, the Ziman and the Poiseuille, are hydrodynamic regimes in which collision among phonons are mostly Normal. It has been difficult to observe them, save for a few insulators with high levels of isotopic and chemical purity. Our thermal transport measurements, covering four decades of temperatures between 0.1 K and 900 K, reveal that sapphire displays all four regimes, despite its isotopic impurity. In the Ziman regime, the thermal conductivity exponentially increases attaining an amplitude as large as 35,000 W/Km. We show that the peak thermal conductivity of ultra-pure, simple insulators, including diamond, silicon and solid helium, is set by a universal scaling depending on isotropic purity. The thermal conductivity of sapphire is an order of magnitude higher than what is expected by this scaling. We argue that this may be caused by the proximity of optical and acoustic phonon modes, as a consequence of the large number of atoms in the primitive cell.
title Phonon hydrodynamic regimes in sapphire
topic Materials Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.16196