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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.

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Physical Review Materials
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2026-03-12
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https://doi.org/10.1103/1qnp-fmm8
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Advanced Physical and Chemical Molecular Interactions
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Ling Yu, Florent Pawula, Ramzy Daou, Benoît Fauqué et al.
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Advanced Physical and Chemical Molecular Interactions
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Ling Yu, Florent Pawula, Ramzy Daou, Benoît Fauqué, Kamran Behnia
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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.

Physical Review MaterialsVol. 10(3)
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)
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