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We present a study of low-temperature electric and thermal transport in ${\mathrm{RuO}}_{2}$, a metallic oxide which has attracted much recent attention. Careful scrutiny of electric resistivity reveals a quadratic temperature dependence below $\ensuremath{\sim}20$ K undetected in previous studies of electronic transport in this material. The prefactor of this ${T}^{2}$ resistivity, given the electronic specific heat, corresponds to what is expected by the Kadowaki-Woods scaling. The variation of its amplitude across four different samples is negligible despite an eightfold variation of residual resistivity. There is also a ${T}^{5}$ resistivity due to scattering by phonons. By measuring thermal conductivity $\ensuremath{\kappa}$ at zero field and at 12 T, we separate its electronic and phononic components and find that the former respects the Wiedemann-Franz law at zero temperature and deviates downward at finite temperature. The latter corresponds to a threefold discrepancy between the prefactors of the two (thermal and electric) $T$-square resistivities. Our results, establishing ${\mathrm{RuO}}_{2}$ as a weakly correlated Fermi liquid, provide input for the ongoing theoretical attempt to give a quantitative account of electron-electron scattering in metallic oxides starting from first principles.
Authors
- Ling Yu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3197-1005)
- Florent Pawula (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2641-0521)
- Ramzy Daou
- Benoît Fauqué (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3855-8371)
- Kamran Behnia (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8997-5645)
Institutions
- Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (FR)
- Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel (FR)
- Normandie Université (FR)
- Laboratoire de Cristallographie et Sciences des Matériaux (FR)
- Huazhong University of Science and Technology (CN)
- Nantes Université (FR)
- ESPCI Paris (FR)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Physical Review Materials
- Published
- 2026-03-12
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/1qnp-fmm8
- Primary Topic
- Advanced Physical and Chemical Molecular Interactions
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00