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1Beijing Computational Science Research Center, Beijing, 100193, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
Motivated by recent experimental findings, we study the contribution of a quantum critical optical phonon branch to the thermal conductivity of a paraelectric system. We consider the proximity of the optical phonon branch to transverse acoustic phonon branch and calculate its contribution to the thermal conductivity within the Kubo formalism. We find a low temperature power law dependence of the thermal conductivity asT, with 1 <α< 2, (lower thanT3behavior) due to optical phonons near the quantum critical point. This result is in accord with the experimental findings and indicates the importance of quantum fluctuations in the thermal conduction in these materials.
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