Di-Ling Zhu

Slow Thermalization and Long-Lived Coherence across Acoustic Phonon Branches in BAs

The exceptionally high thermal conductivity of cubic boron arsenide (BAs) arises from suppressed three-phonon scattering associated with its large acoustic--optical gap. In this regime, four-phonon processes become non-negligible, creating an unusual scattering hierarchy with unexplored consequences for nonequilibrium...