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Observation of giant and tuneable thermal diffusivity of Dirac fluid at room temperature (2008.04189v2)

Published 10 Aug 2020 in cond-mat.mes-hall, cond-mat.str-el, and physics.optics

Abstract: Conducting materials typically exhibit either diffusive or ballistic charge transport. However, when electron-electron interactions dominate, a hydrodynamic regime with viscous charge flow emerges (1-13). More stringent conditions eventually yield a quantum-critical Dirac-fluid regime, where electronic heat can flow more efficiently than charge (14-22). Here we observe heat transport in graphene in the diffusive and hydrodynamic regimes, and report a controllable transition to the Dirac-fluid regime at room temperature, using carrier temperature and carrier density as control knobs. We introduce the technique of spatiotemporal thermoelectric microscopy with femtosecond temporal and nanometre spatial resolution, which allows for tracking electronic heat spreading. In the diffusive regime, we find a thermal diffusivity of $\sim$2,000 cm$2$/s, consistent with charge transport. Remarkably, during the hydrodynamic time window before momentum relaxation, we observe heat spreading corresponding to a giant diffusivity up to 70,000 cm$2$/Vs, indicative of a Dirac fluid. These results are promising for applications such as nanoscale thermal management.

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