Table 1 Different cases of phonon thermal conductivity

From: How heat propagates in liquid 3He

System

Sonic heat carriers

Temperature dependence

Mechanism

Reference

Crystal (T → 0)

small-q phonons

κT3

Boundary scattering

39,47

Crystal (T ~ TD)

large-q phonons

κT−1

Umklapp scattering

47,48,49

Glass (T → 0)

"propagons”

κT~2

Rayleigh scattering

50,51,52

Glass (high T)

"diffusons”

κT0

Minimum mean free path

52,53,54

Classical liquid

large-q phonons

κT0

Minimum mean free path

25

Quantum liquid 3He

q ~ 2kF phonons

κT1/2

Fermi surface thermal fuzziness

This work

  1. Comparison between the present case of heat propagation by collective excitations with other and better-understood regimes of phonon thermal conductivity.