Fermi Surface Nesting and Phonon Frequency Gap Drive Anomalous Thermal Transport

Li, Chunhua; Ravichandran, Navaneetha K.; Lindsay, Lucas R.; Broido, David

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.175901

Title: Fermi Surface Nesting and Phonon Frequency Gap Drive Anomalous Thermal Transport

Journal Article · 21 October 2018 · Physical Review Letters

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.175901 · OSTI ID:1479763

Li, Chunhua ^[1]; Ravichandran, Navaneetha K. ^[1];

^[2]; Broido, David ^[1]

Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA (United States)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

The lattice thermal conductivity, k_L, of typical metallic and nonmetallic crystals decreases rapidly with increasing temperature because phonons interact more strongly with other phonons than they do with electrons. Using first principles calculations, we show that k_L can become nearly independent of temperature in metals that have nested Fermi surfaces and large frequency gaps between acoustic and optic phonons. Then, the interactions between phonons and electrons become much stronger than the mutual interactions between phonons, giving the fundamentally different k_L behavior. This striking trend is revealed here in the group V transition metal carbides, vanadium carbide, niobium carbide, and tantalum carbide, and it should also occur in several other metal compounds. As a result, this work gives insights into the physics of heat conduction in solids and identifies a new heat flow regime driven by the interplay between Fermi surfaces and phonon dispersions.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 1479763

Journal Information:: Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Issue: 17 Vol. 121; ISSN 0031-9007; ISSN PRLTAO

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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