Transport properties of CrP

Abstract

CrP has many exotic physical properties due to a four-fold degenerate band crossing at the Y point of the Brillouin zone, which is protected by the nonsymmorphic symmetry of the space group. We carried out the heat capacity, electrical and thermal transport measurements on CrP and extracted the electron thermal conductivity. Due to the difference in energy and momentum relaxation time during electron–phonon inelastic scattering, the normalized Lorentz number decreases below about 160 K. Below 25.6 K, the normalized Lorentz number begins to recover, which is due to the dominance of elastic scattering between electrons and defects at low temperatures.