Heat transport of clean spin-ladders coupled to phonons: Umklapp scattering and drag

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2006-07-31

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0607837v2

Phys. Rev. B 76, 214411 (2007)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

revised version, 8 pages, 3 figures, added appendix

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.76.214411

We study the low-temperature heat transport in clean two-leg spin ladder compounds coupled to three-dimensional phonons. We argue that the very large heat conductivities observed in such systems can be traced back to the existence of approximate symmetries and corresponding weakly violated conservation laws of the effective (gapful) low--energy model, namely pseudo-momenta. Depending on the ratios of spin gaps and Debye energy and on the temperature, the magnetic contribution to the heat conductivity can be positive or negative, and exhibit an activated or anti-activated behavior. In most regimes, the magnetic heat conductivity is dominated by the spin-phonon drag: the excitations of the two subsystems have almost the same drift velocity, and this allows for an estimate of the ratio of the magnetic and phononic contributions to the heat conductivity.

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