Subterahertz Momentum Drag and Violation of Matthiessen's Rule in an Ultraclean Ferromagnetic SrRuO_{3} Metallic Thin Film.


Journal

Physical review letters
ISSN: 1079-7114
Titre abrégé: Phys Rev Lett
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0401141

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
20 Nov 2020
Historique:
received: 23 03 2020
revised: 14 08 2020
accepted: 09 10 2020
entrez: 4 12 2020
pubmed: 5 12 2020
medline: 5 12 2020
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

SrRuO_{3}, a ferromagnet with an approximately 160 K Curie temperature, exhibits a T^{2}-dependent dc resistivity below ≈30  K. Nevertheless, previous optical studies in the infrared and terahertz range show non-Drude dynamics at low temperatures, which seem to contradict Fermi-liquid predictions. In this work, we measure the low-frequency THz range response of thin films with residual resistivity ratios, ρ_{300K}/ρ_{4K}≈74. At temperatures below 30 K, we find both a sharp zero frequency mode which has a width narrower than k_{B}T/ℏ as well as a broader zero frequency Lorentzian that has at least an order of magnitude larger scattering. Both features have temperature dependences consistent with a Fermi liquid with the wider feature explicitly showing a T^{2} scaling. Above 30 K, there is a crossover to a regime described by a single Drude peak that we believe arises from strong interband electron-electron scattering. Such two channel Drude transport sheds light on reports of the violation of Matthiessen's rule and extreme sensitivity to disorder in metallic ruthenates.

Identifiants

pubmed: 33274990
doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.217401
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

217401

Auteurs

Youcheng Wang (Y)

The Institute for Quantum Matter, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA.

G Bossé (G)

The Institute for Quantum Matter, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA.
Physics Department, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida 32224-7699, USA.

H P Nair (HP)

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA.

N J Schreiber (NJ)

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA.

J P Ruf (JP)

Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Department of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA.

B Cheng (B)

The Institute for Quantum Matter, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA.

C Adamo (C)

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA.

D E Shai (DE)

Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Department of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA.

Y Lubashevsky (Y)

The Institute for Quantum Matter, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA.

D G Schlom (DG)

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA.
Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA.

K M Shen (KM)

Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Department of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA.
Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA.

N P Armitage (NP)

The Institute for Quantum Matter, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA.

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