$T-$linear resistivity from magneto-elastic scattering: application to PdCrO$_2$
Abstract
An electronic solid with itinerant carriers and localized magnetic moments represents a paradigmatic strongly correlated system. The electrical transport properties associated with the itinerant carriers, as they scatter off these local moments, has been scrutinized across a number of materials. Here we analyze the transport characteristics associated with ultra-clean PdCrO -- a quasi two-dimensional material consisting of alternating layers of itinerant Pd-electrons and Mott-insulating CrO layers -- which shows a pronounced regime of linear resistivity over a wide-range of intermediate temperatures. By contrasting these observations to the transport properties in a closely related material PdCoO, where the CoO layers are band-insulators, we can rule out the traditional electron-phonon interactions as being responsible for this interesting regime. We propose a previously ignored electron-magnetoelastic interaction between the Pd-electrons, the Cr local-moments and an out-of-plane phonon as the main scattering mechanism that leads to the significant enhancement of resistivity and a linear regime in PdCrO at temperatures far in excess of the magnetic ordering temperature. We suggest a number of future experiments to confirm this picture in PdCrO, as well as other layered metallic/Mott-insulating materials.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2301.10776,
title = {$T-$linear resistivity from magneto-elastic scattering: application to PdCrO$_2$},
author = {J. F. Mendez-Valderrama and Evyatar Tulipman and Elina Zhakina and Andrew P. Mackenzie and Erez Berg and Debanjan Chowdhury},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.10776},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
7 pages, 3 figures. Supplementary material: 10 pages, 3 figures