Quantum Effects in Thermal Conductivity of Solid Krypton - Methane Solutions

Details Quantum Effects in Thermal Conductivity of Solid Krypton - Methane Solutions Quantum Effects in Thermal Conductivity of Solid Krypton - Methane Solutions

2003-09-24

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0309542v1

published in LTP (2003)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

13 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.1614187

The dynamic interaction of a quantum rotor with its crystalline environment has been studied by measurement of the thermal conductivity of solid Kr1_c(CH4)_c solutions at c = 0.05-0.75 in the temperature region from 2 up to 40K. The thermal resistance of the solutions was mainly determined by the resonance scattering of phonons by CH4 molecules with the nuclear spin I=1 (the nuclear spin of T-species). The influence of the nuclear spin conversion on the temperature dependence of the thermal conductivity k(T) was found: a clearly defined minimum on k(T), its temperature position depending on the CH4 concentration. It was shown that the anisotropy molecular field not increase monotonously with the CH4 concentration. A compensation effect in the mutual orientation arrangement of the neighboring rotors is observed at c > 0.5. The temperature dependence of Kr1_c(CH4)_c is described within the Debye model of thermal conductivity taking into account the lower limit of the phonon mean free path. The anomalous temperature dependence of the thermal resistance shows the evolution of the phonon-rotation coupling at varying temperature. It increases strongly when the character of CH4 rotation changes from the quantum at low temperatures to classical at high temperatures. Also, a jump of thermal conductivity (a sharp increase in k(T) within a narrow temperature range) was observed, whose position varies from 9.7 K to 8.4 K when the CH4 concentration changes from 0.25 to 0.45.

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