Investigation of Planckian behavior in a high-conductivity oxide: PdCrO2

Elina Zhakina; Ramzy Daou; Antoine Maignan; Philippa H. McGuinness; Markus König; Helge Rosner; Seo Jin Kim; Seunghyun Khim; Romain Grasset; Marcin Konczykowski; Evyatar Tulipman; Juan Felipe Mendez-Valderrama; Debanjan Chowdhury; Erez Berg; Andrew P. Mackenzie

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Investigation of Planckian behavior in a high-conductivity oxide: PdCrO₂

Elina Zhakina, Ramzy Daou, Antoine Maignan, Philippa H. McGuinness, Markus König, Helge Rosner, Seo Jin Kim, Seunghyun Khim, Romain Grasset, Marcin Konczykowski, Evyatar Tulipman, Juan Felipe Mendez-Valderrama, Debanjan Chowdhury, Erez Berg, Andrew P. Mackenzie

Department of Condensed Matter Physics

Weizmann Institute of Science

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The layered delafossite metal PdCrO₂ is a natural heterostructure of highly conductive Pd layers Kondo coupled to localized spins in the adjacent Mott insulating CrO₂ layers. At high temperatures, T, it has a T-linear resistivity which is not seen in the isostructural but nonmagnetic PdCoO₂. 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/ℏ.

Original language	English
Article number	e2307334120
Journal	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS
Volume	120
Issue number	36
Early online date	28 Aug 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2307334120
State	Published - 5 Sep 2023

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Zhakina, E., Daou, R., Maignan, A., McGuinness, P. H., König, M., Rosner, H., Kim, S. J., Khim, S., Grasset, R., Konczykowski, M., Tulipman, E., Mendez-Valderrama, J. F., Chowdhury, D., Berg, E., & Mackenzie, A. P. (2023). Investigation of Planckian behavior in a high-conductivity oxide: PdCrO₂. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS, 120(36), Article e2307334120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2307334120

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Zhakina, E, Daou, R, Maignan, A, McGuinness, PH, König, M, Rosner, H, Kim, SJ, Khim, S, Grasset, R, Konczykowski, M, Tulipman, E, Mendez-Valderrama, JF, Chowdhury, D, Berg, E & Mackenzie, AP 2023, 'Investigation of Planckian behavior in a high-conductivity oxide: PdCrO₂', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS, vol. 120, no. 36, e2307334120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2307334120

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