Random Interactions
Non-fermi liquids and the Wiedemann-Franz law
by Mr. Raghu Mahajan (Stanford University)
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
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(Asia/Kolkata)
at Colaba Campus ( A304 )
at Colaba Campus ( A304 )
Description |
This talk will present a general discussion of the ratio of thermal and electrical conductivities in non-Fermi liquid metals. The conductivities of non-Fermi liquids are obtained within a fundamentally different kinematics to Fermi liquids. Among these strongly interacting non-Fermi liquids we distinguish cases with only one almost-conserved momentum, and with many patchwise almost-conserved momenta. We obtain universal expressions for the ratio of conductivities that violate the Wiedemann-Franz law. We further discuss the case in which long-lived `cold' quasiparticles, in general with unconventional scattering rates, coexist with strongly interacting hot spots, lines or bands. For these cases, we characterize circumstances under which a linear in temperature resistivity is and is not compatible with the Wiedemann-Franz law. We suggest the likely outcome of future transport experiments on CeCoIn5, YbRh2Si2 and Sr3Ru2O7 at their critical magnetic fields. |