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Planckian relaxation delusion in metals

Superconductivity 2021-05-06 v3 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We present a critical review of recent attempts to introduce the new quantum ("Planckian") limit for the temperature dependence of inelastic scattering rate of electrons in metals. We briefly discuss the main experimental facts and some simple theoretical models explaining the linear in temperature growth of resistivity (starting from very low temperatures) in superconducting cuprates and some similar systems. There is no commonly accepted theoretical explanation of such behavior up to now. We also discuss the known quantum limits for electrical conductivity (resistance). It is shown that the universal Planckian limit for the inelastic relaxation rate proposed in some papers is a kind of delusion related to a certain procedure to represent the experimental data.

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@article{arxiv.2008.09300,
  title  = {Planckian relaxation delusion in metals},
  author = {M. V. Sadovskii},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.09300},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

17 pages, 13 figures, short review extending the discussion of arXiv:2001.01393, to be published in Physics Uspekhi, few typos corrected

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