Violation of the Wiedemann-Franz law in hydrodynamic electron liquids

  • Dipartimento di Fisica - Aula 601
  • Seminario

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Alessandro Principi
Radboud University

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The Wiedemann-Franz law, connecting the electronic thermal conductivity to the electrical conductivity of a disordered metal, is generally found to be well satisfied even when electron-electron (e-e) interactions are strong. In ultra-clean conductors in the hydrodynamic regime, however, large deviations from  the standard form of the law are expected, due to the fact that e-e interactions affect the two conductivities in radically different ways. Thus, the standard Wiedemann-Franz ratio between the thermal and the electric conductivity is reduced by a factor $1+\tau/\tau_{\rm th}^{\rm ee}$, where $1/\tau$ is the momentum relaxation rate, and $\tau_{\rm th}^{\rm ee}$ is the relaxation time of the thermal current due to e-e collisions. Here we study the density and temperature dependence of $1/\tau_{\rm th}^{\rm ee}$ of two-dimensional electron liquids.
We show that at low temperature $1/\tau_{\rm th}^{\rm ee}$ is $8/5$ of the quasiparticle decay rate: remarkably, the same result is found in doped graphene and in conventional electron liquids in parabolic bands.