Heat and Charge Transport Properties of MgB2

Details Heat and Charge Transport Properties of MgB2 Heat and Charge Transport Properties of MgB2

2001-05-22

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0105429v2

Physica C 363 (2001) 6

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

7 pages, 5 figures; added references and minor changes; accepted for publication in Physica C

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0921-4534(01)00947-9

A polycrystalline sample of the MgB_2 superconductor was investigated by measurements of the electrical resistivity, the thermopower and the thermal conductivity in the temperature range between 1.8K and 300K in zero magnetic field. The electrical resistivity shows a superconducting transition at T_c=38.7K and, similarly to borocarbides, a T^2.4 behaviour up to 200K. The electron diffusion thermopower and its bandstructure-derived value indicate the dominant hole character of the charge carriers. The total thermopower can be explained by the diffusion term renormalized by a significant electron-phonon interaction and a phonon drag term. In the thermal conductivity, for decreasing temperature, a significant decrease below T_c is observed resulting in a T^3 behaviour below 7K. The reduced Lorenz number exhibits values smaller than 1 and a characteristic minimum which resembles the behaviour of non-magnetic borocarbides.

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