$T-$linear resistivity from magneto-elastic scattering: application to PdCrO${}_2$

Abstract

An electronic solid with itinerant carriers and localized magnetic moments represents a paradigmatic strongly correlated system. The electrical transport properties associated with the itinerant carriers, as they scatter off these local moments, has been scrutinized across a number of materials. Here we analyze the transport characteristics associated with ultra-clean PdCrO${}_2$ -- a quasi two-dimensional material consisting of alternating layers of itinerant Pd-electrons and Mott-insulating CrO${}_2$ layers -- which shows a pronounced regime of $T-$linear resistivity over a wide-range of intermediate temperatures. By contrasting these observations to the transport properties in a closely related material PdCoO${}_2$, where the CoO${}_2$ layers are band-insulators, we can rule out the traditional electron-phonon interactions as being responsible for this interesting regime. We propose a previously ignored electron-magnetoelastic interaction between the Pd-electrons, the Cr local-moments and an out-of-plane phonon as the main scattering mechanism that leads to the significant enhancement of resistivity and a $T-$linear regime in PdCrO${}_2$ at temperatures far in excess of the magnetic ordering temperature. We suggest a number of future experiments to confirm this picture in PdCrO${}_2$, as well as other layered metallic/Mott-insulating materials.

arXiv comment7 pages, 3 figures. Supplementary material: 10 pages, 3 figures

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