What can we learn from nonequilibrium response of a strange metal?1)
B. A. Polyak+*, V. S. Khrapai*, E. S. Tikhonov* 2)
+Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 141700 Dolgoprudny, Russia
*Osipyan Institute of Solid State Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 142432 Chernogolovka, Russia
Abstract
We critically address the recent experiment by L. Chen et al.
[Science 382, 907 (2023)] on nonequilibrium transport and
noise in a strange metal patterned into the nanowire shape. In the
long device, resistivity, differential resistance and current noise data
seem to be consistent allowing us to extract electron-phonon coupling and
the temperature dependence of electron-phonon scattering length. The
obtained values can be reconciled with the experimental data for the
short device only assuming the significant contact resistance. We discuss
its possible origin as due to the current redistribution between
and its gold covering, and reveal that this redistribution contact
resistance should be proportional to the resistivity. We also
discuss some subtleties of the noise measurements. Overall, neglecting
electron-phonon energy relaxation even in the shortest devices is
arguable so that the observed shot noise suppression can hardly be
attributed to the failure of quasiparticle concept.