Formation of an Electron-Phonon Bifluid in Bulk Antimony

Autor: Alexandre Jaoui, Adrien Gourgout, Gabriel Seyfarth, Alaska Subedi, Thomas Lorenz, Benoît Fauqué, Kamran Behnia
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Physical Review X, Vol 12, Iss 3, p 031023 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2160-3308
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.12.031023
Popis: The flow of charge and entropy in solids usually depends on collisions decaying quasiparticle momentum. Hydrodynamic corrections can emerge, however, if most collisions among quasiparticles conserve momentum and the mean-free path approaches the sample dimensions. Here, through a study of electrical and thermal transport in antimony (Sb) crystals of various sizes, we document the emergence of a two-component fluid of electrons and phonons. Lattice thermal conductivity is dominated by electron scattering down to 0.1 K and displays prominent quantum oscillations. The Dingle mobility does not vary despite an order-of-magnitude change in transport mobility. The Bloch-Grüneisen behavior of electrical resistivity is suddenly aborted below 15 K and replaced by a quadratic temperature dependence. At the Kelvin temperature range, the phonon scattering time and the electron-electron scattering time display a similar amplitude and temperature dependence. Taken together, the results draw a consistent picture of a bifluid where frequent momentum-conserving collisions between electrons and phonons dominate the transport properties.
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