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Title: Thermal transport properties and some hydrodynamic-like behavior in three-dimensional topological semimetal $$\mathrm{ZrTe}_5$$

Abstract

We report hydrodynamic fluidity in condensed matter physics has been experimentally demonstrated only in a limited number of compounds due to the stringent conditions that must be met. Herein, we performed thermal and electrical transport experiments in three-dimensional topological semimetal ZrTe5. By measuring the thermal properties in a wide temperature range, two representative experimental evidences of the hydrodynamics are observed in temperature window between the ballistic and diffusive regimes: a faster evolution of the thermal conductivity than in the ballistic regime and the non-monotonic temperature-dependent effective quasiparticle mean-free-path. In addition, magneto-thermal conductivity results indicate that charged quasiparticles, as well as phonons, may also play an important role in this hydrodynamic-like flow in ZrTe5.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1];  [2];  [2];  [3];  [4]; ORCiD logo [5]; ORCiD logo [6]; ORCiD logo [7];  [2]
  1. Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen (China); Pusan National University, Busan (Korea, Republic of)
  2. Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen (China)
  3. Pusan National University, Busan (Korea, Republic of)
  4. Chongqing University (China)
  5. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) (Hong Kong)
  6. Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
  7. Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Stony Brook University, NY (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division; National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); Chongqing Research Program of Basic Research and Frontier Technology; Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China; China postdoctoral Science Foundation; Shenzhen Distinguished Young Scholar
OSTI Identifier:
1897504
Report Number(s):
BNL-223679-2022-JAAM
Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9950; TRN: US2310803
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0012704; 2021M3H4A6A02045432; 11904040; cstc2020jcyj-msxmX0263; GRF-16302018; C6025-19G-A; 118744193; 2020M672760; RCJC20200714114435105
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review. B
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 105; Journal Issue: 8; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; electrical conductivity; phonons; quasiparticles and collective excitations; thermal conductivity; semimetals; topological materials

Citation Formats

Cho, Chang-woo, Wang, Peipei, Tang, Fangdong, Park, Sungkyun, He, Mingquan, Lortz, Rolf, Gu, Genda, Li, Qiang, and Zhang, Liyuan. Thermal transport properties and some hydrodynamic-like behavior in three-dimensional topological semimetal $\mathrm{ZrTe}_5$. United States: N. p., 2022. Web. doi:10.1103/physrevb.105.085132.
Cho, Chang-woo, Wang, Peipei, Tang, Fangdong, Park, Sungkyun, He, Mingquan, Lortz, Rolf, Gu, Genda, Li, Qiang, & Zhang, Liyuan. Thermal transport properties and some hydrodynamic-like behavior in three-dimensional topological semimetal $\mathrm{ZrTe}_5$. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.105.085132
Cho, Chang-woo, Wang, Peipei, Tang, Fangdong, Park, Sungkyun, He, Mingquan, Lortz, Rolf, Gu, Genda, Li, Qiang, and Zhang, Liyuan. Tue . "Thermal transport properties and some hydrodynamic-like behavior in three-dimensional topological semimetal $\mathrm{ZrTe}_5$". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.105.085132. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1897504.
@article{osti_1897504,
title = {Thermal transport properties and some hydrodynamic-like behavior in three-dimensional topological semimetal $\mathrm{ZrTe}_5$},
author = {Cho, Chang-woo and Wang, Peipei and Tang, Fangdong and Park, Sungkyun and He, Mingquan and Lortz, Rolf and Gu, Genda and Li, Qiang and Zhang, Liyuan},
abstractNote = {We report hydrodynamic fluidity in condensed matter physics has been experimentally demonstrated only in a limited number of compounds due to the stringent conditions that must be met. Herein, we performed thermal and electrical transport experiments in three-dimensional topological semimetal ZrTe5. By measuring the thermal properties in a wide temperature range, two representative experimental evidences of the hydrodynamics are observed in temperature window between the ballistic and diffusive regimes: a faster evolution of the thermal conductivity than in the ballistic regime and the non-monotonic temperature-dependent effective quasiparticle mean-free-path. In addition, magneto-thermal conductivity results indicate that charged quasiparticles, as well as phonons, may also play an important role in this hydrodynamic-like flow in ZrTe5.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevb.105.085132},
journal = {Physical Review. B},
number = 8,
volume = 105,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Feb 22 00:00:00 EST 2022},
month = {Tue Feb 22 00:00:00 EST 2022}
}

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