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

doi:10.1073/pnas.2307334120

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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The layered delafossite metal PdCrO₂ is a natural heterostructure ofhighly conductive Pd layers Kondo coupled to localized spins in the adjacent Mott insulating CrO₂ layers. At high temperatures T it has a T-linearresistivity which is not seen in the isostructural but non-magnetic PdCoO₂.The strength of the Kondo coupling is known, as-grown crystals are extremelyhigh purity and the Fermi surface is both very simple and experimentally known. It is therefore an ideal material platform in which to investigate 'Planckianmetal' 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 kBT/ℏ.

Original language	English
Article number	e2307334120
Number of pages	8
Journal	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Volume	120
Issue number	36
Early online date	28 Aug 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2307334120
Publication status	Published - 5 Sept 2023

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Zhakina, E. (Creator), Daou, R. (Creator), Maignan, A. (Creator), McGuinness, P. (Creator), König, M. (Creator), Rosner, H. (Creator), Kim, S.-J. (Creator), Khim, S. (Creator), Grasset, R. (Creator), Konczykowski, M. (Creator), Tulipman, E. (Creator), Mendez-Valderrama, J. F. (Creator), Chowdhury, D. (Creator), Berg, E. (Creator) & Mackenzie, A. (Creator), University of St Andrews, 13 Sept 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, 120(36), Article e2307334120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2307334120

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