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The perfect thermal conductor and the perfect thermal insulator

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High Debye temperature also produceshigh conductivity in metals• Phonons disrupt <strong>the</strong>periodicity of <strong>the</strong>lattice– k is not a goodquantum number• Pure metals havehigh conductivity atlow temperaturesΛ=LσTMueller et al., APL 57, 240 (1990)

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