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NPJ QUANTUM MATERIALS
Volume 3, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41535-018-0136-x
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- Fonds-ESPCI
- Region Ile-de-France
- National Science Foundation [NSF PHY17-48958]
- NSF [DMR-1720816]
- Jeunes Equipes de l'Institut de Physique du College de France (JEIP)
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The Wiedemann-Franz law establishes a link between heat and charge transport due to electrons in solids. The extent of its validity in the presence of inelastic scattering is a question raised in different contexts. Here we report on a study of the electrical, sigma, and thermal, kappa, conductivities in WP2 single crystals. The Wiedemann-Franz law holds at 2 K, but a downward deviation rapidly emerges upon warming. At 13 K, there is an exceptionally large mismatch between the Lorenz number and the Sommerfeld value. We show that this is driven by a fivefold discrepancy between the T-square prefactors of electrical and thermal resistivities, both caused by electron-electron scattering. This implies the existence of abundant small-scattering-angle collisions between electrons, due to strong screening. By quantifying the relative frequency of collisions conserving momentum flux, but degrading heat flux, we identify a narrow temperature window where the hierarchy of scattering times may correspond to the hydrodynamic regime.
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