Transport without quasiparticles in graphene and Weyl semi-metals
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Abstract
Graphene and Weyl semi-metals have electronic excitations with a massless Dirac spectrum. At charge neutrality, the long-range Coulomb interaction remains unscreened, and electronic quasiparticles are not well defined. In sufficiently clean samples, thermal and electrical transport enters a hydrodynamic regime: insights on the nature of transport in this regime have emerged from holographic connections to the dynamics of black holes. A large enhancement of the Wiedemann-Franz ratio of the thermal and electrical conductivities was predicted, and is in good agreement with observations on graphene. In Weyl semi-metals, an axial-gravitational anomaly was employed to predict magnetotransport properties, and is consistent with a positive longitudinal magnetothermoelectric conductance observed in NbP.
*This research was supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation EPiQS Initiative through Grant GBMF4306, by the National Science Foundation under Grant DMR-1360789 and Multi-University Research Initiative Grant W911NF-14-1-0003 from the Army Research Office.
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Presenters
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Subir Sachdev
- Harvard University
- Physics, Harvard University
- Harvard Univ
- Physics, Harvard Univ
- Department of Physics, Harvard University