Transport without quasiparticles in graphene and Weyl semi-metals

 · Invited

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.

Presenters

  • Subir Sachdev

    • Harvard University
    • Physics, Harvard University
    • Harvard Univ
    • Physics, Harvard Univ
    • Department of Physics, Harvard University

Authors

  • Richard Davison

    • Harvard University
    • Harvard Univ
  • Andrew Lucas

    • Physics, Stanford University
    • Stanford Univ
    • Physics, Stanford Univ
  • Subir Sachdev

    • Harvard University
    • Physics, Harvard University
    • Harvard Univ
    • Physics, Harvard Univ
    • Department of Physics, Harvard University