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Title: Thermoelectric and thermal properties of the weakly disordered non-Fermi liquid phase of Luttinger semimetals

Abstract: We compute the thermoelectric and thermal transport in the weakly disordered non-Fermi liquid phase of the Luttinger semimetals at zero doping, where the decay rate associated with the (strong) Coulomb interactions is much larger than the electron-impurity scattering rate. To this end, we implement the Mori-Zwanzig memory matrix method, that does not rely on the existence of long-lived quasiparticles in the system. We find that the thermal conductivity at zero electric field scales as $\bar{\kappa}\sim T^{-n}$ (with $0\lesssim n\lesssim 1)$ at low temperatures, whereas the thermoelectric coefficient has the temperature dependence given by $\alpha\sim T^{p}$ (with $1/2\lesssim p\lesssim 3/2)$. These unconventional properties turn out to be key signatures of this long sought-after non-Fermi liquid state in the Luttinger semimetals, which is expected to emerge in strongly correlated spin-orbit coupled materials like the pyrochlore iridates. Finally, our results indicate that these materials might be good candidates for achieving high figure of merit for thermoelectric applications.
Comments: typos involving factors of $N_f$ fixed
Subjects: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn); Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
Journal reference: Physics Letters A 407, 127470 (2021)
DOI: 10.1016/j.physleta.2021.127470
Cite as: arXiv:2104.07459 [cond-mat.str-el]
  (or arXiv:2104.07459v3 [cond-mat.str-el] for this version)

Submission history

From: Ipsita Mandal [view email]
[v1] Thu, 15 Apr 2021 13:47:42 GMT (93kb,D)
[v2] Fri, 11 Jun 2021 12:38:34 GMT (92kb,D)
[v3] Mon, 7 Feb 2022 15:21:04 GMT (106kb,D)

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