Controlled calculation of the thermal conductivity for a spinon Fermi surface coupled to a U(1) gauge field

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2014.07.002zbMATH Open1343.82042arXiv1404.0679OpenAlexW4301439811MaRDI QIDQ305282FDOQ305282

Authors: Hermann Freire 

Publication date: 29 August 2016

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Motivated by recent transport measurements on the candidate spin-liquid phase of the organic triangular lattice insulator EtMe${}_3$Sb[Pd(dmit)${}_2$]${}_2$, we perform a controlled calculation of the thermal conductivity at intermediate temperatures in a spin liquid system where a spinon Fermi surface is coupled to a $U(1)$ gauge field. The present computation builds upon the double expansion approach developed by Mross emph{et al.} [Phys. Rev. B extbf{82}, 045121 (2010)] for small $epsilon=z_b-2$ (where $z_b$ is the dynamical critical exponent of the gauge field) and large number of fermionic species $N$. Using the so-called memory matrix formalism that most crucially does not assume the existence of well-defined quasiparticles at low energies in the system, we calculate the temperature dependence of the thermal conductivity $kappa$ of this model due to non-critical Umklapp scattering of the spinons for a finite $N$ and small $epsilon$. Then we discuss the physical implications of such theoretical result in connection with the experimental data available in the literature.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.0679

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zbMATH Keywords

thermal conductivitynon-Fermi liquidsspin-liquid phasestrongly correlated electronic systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70)

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