Thermal conductivity of bulk YBa2Cu4O8 and the phonon transport model

• We have measured the thermal conductivity varkappa of bulk YBa2Cu4O8 (1-2-4) between 30 and 310 K and at pressures p up to 1 GPa. At p = 0, varkappa = 10 Wm−1K−1 near 100 K, twice that of sintered YBa2Cu3O−δ (1-2-3). varkappa also decreases with increasing T more rapidly than in 1-2-3, to 7.4 Wm−1K−1 at 300 K. Under pressure, varkappa increases slowly with p above 150 K, but dvarkappa/dp decreases at lower T. Our results are in excellent agreement with a semi-classical model for phonon thermal conductivity, provided we assume significant charge transfer with pressure. The calculated phonon mean free path is much larger than the lattice spacing at all T.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Fysik -- Den kondenserade materiens fysik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Physical Sciences -- Condensed Matter Physics (hsv//eng)

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Thermal conductivity

superconductivity

High transition temperature superconductor

HTS

HiTc

high pressure

YBa2Cu4O8

phonon transport

electron-phonon interaction

charge transfer

Condensed matter physics

Kondenserade materiens fysik

Superconductivity

Supraledning

fysik

Physics

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