Nature Communications (Jan 2021)

Thermal resistivity and hydrodynamics of the degenerate electron fluid in antimony

  • Alexandre Jaoui,
  • Benoît Fauqué,
  • Kamran Behnia

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20420-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Viscous fermionic flow appears in liquid helium but rarely appears in metallic solid. Here, Jaoui et al. report a T-square thermal resistivity due to momentum conserving electronic scattering in semi-metallic antimony, which is in agreement with the hydrodynamic scenario.