Timeline for Why haven't we found thermal superconductors?
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| Aug 3, 2023 at 16:26 | comment | added | user3106891 | Thank you so much for your explanation and the book suggestion, mike! This is super helpful :) | |
| Aug 3, 2023 at 15:34 | comment | added | mike stone | Exactly. In the absence of backscattering you have ballistic transport. There is a nice book "Imaging Phonons: Acoustic Wave Propagation in Solids" by Jim Wolfe with pictures of what happens to low-energy phonons which are almost ballistic. | |
| Aug 3, 2023 at 15:23 | vote | accept | user3106891 | ||
| Aug 3, 2023 at 14:57 | comment | added | user3106891 | I see, so the scattering causes the phonons to bounce back limiting the "flow" of thermal transfer? | |
| Aug 3, 2023 at 14:38 | history | answered | mike stone | CC BY-SA 4.0 |