Nature Communications (Aug 2021)

Sondheimer oscillations as a probe of non-ohmic flow in WP2 crystals

  • Maarten R. van Delft,
  • Yaxian Wang,
  • Carsten Putzke,
  • Jacopo Oswald,
  • Georgios Varnavides,
  • Christina A. C. Garcia,
  • Chunyu Guo,
  • Heinz Schmid,
  • Vicky Süss,
  • Horst Borrmann,
  • Jonas Diaz,
  • Yan Sun,
  • Claudia Felser,
  • Bernd Gotsmann,
  • Prineha Narang,
  • Philip J. W. Moll

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25037-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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A good way to identify microscopic conduction regimes where current flow deviates from Ohm’s law is still lacking. Here, the authors identify Sondheimer oscillations as a quantitative probe of the length scale of relaxing electron scattering in studying the non-ohmic electron flow of WP2 crystals.