The Lorenz number in CeCoIn5 inferred from the thermal and charge Hall currents

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Published 28 September 2007 Europhysics Letters Association
, , Citation Y. Onose et al 2007 EPL 80 37005 DOI 10.1209/0295-5075/80/37005

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Abstract

The thermal Hall conductivity κxy and Hall conductivity σxy in CeCoIn5 are used to determine the Lorenz number at low temperature T. This enables the separation of the observed thermal conductivity into its electronic and non-electronic parts. We uncover evidence for a charge-neutral, field-dependent thermal conductivity, which we identify with spin excitations. At low T, these excitations dominate the scattering of charge carriers. We show that suppression of the spin excitations in high fields leads to a steep enhancement of the electron mean-free-path, which leads to an interesting scaling relation between the magnetoresistance, thermal conductivity and σxy.

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10.1209/0295-5075/80/37005