Anomalously low electronic thermal conductivity in metallic vanadium dioxide

Lee, Sangwook; Hippalgaonkar, Kedar; Yang, Fan; Hong, Jiawang; Ko, Changhyun; Suh, Joonki; Liu, Kai; Wang, Kevin; Urban, Jeffrey J.; Zhang, Xiang; Dames, Chris; Hartnoll, Sean A.; Delaire, Olivier; Wu, Junqiao

doi:10.1126/science.aag0410

Anomalously low electronic thermal conductivity in metallic vanadium dioxide

Journal Article · Wed Jan 25 23:00:00 EST 2017 · Science

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aag0410· OSTI ID:1379692

Lee, Sangwook ^[1]; Hippalgaonkar, Kedar ^[2]; Yang, Fan ^[3]; Hong, Jiawang ^[4]; Ko, Changhyun ^[5]; Suh, Joonki ^[5]; Liu, Kai ^[6]; Wang, Kevin ^[5]; Urban, Jeffrey J. ^[7]; Zhang, Xiang ^[8]; Dames, Chris ^[6]; Hartnoll, Sean A. ^[9]; Delaire, Olivier ^[10]; Wu, Junqiao ^[6]

Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Kyungpook National Univ., Daegu (Korea, Republic of)
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) (Singapore)
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Molecular Foundry
Beijing Institute of Technology (China); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Molecular Foundry
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); King Abdulaziz Univ., Jeddah (Saudi Arabia)
Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Duke Univ., Durham, NC (United States)

In electrically conductive solids, the Wiedemann-Franz law requires the electronic contribution to thermal conductivity to be proportional to electrical conductivity. Violations of the Wiedemann-Franz law are typically an indication of unconventional quasiparticle dynamics, such as inelastic scattering, or hydrodynamic collective motion of charge carriers, typically pronounced only at cryogenic temperatures. Here we report an order-of-magnitude breakdown of the Wiedemann-Franz law at high temperatures ranging from 240 to 340 kelvin in metallic vanadium dioxide in the vicinity of its metal-insulator transition. Different from previously established mechanisms, the unusually low electronic thermal conductivity is a signature of the absence of quasiparticles in a strongly correlated electron fluid where heat and charge diffuse independently.

Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

DOE Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1379692

Journal Information:: Science, Journal Name: Science Journal Issue: 6323 Vol. 355; ISSN 0036-8075

Publisher:: AAAS

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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