Interfacial Thermal Conductance Due To Electronic Heat Transport Across A Normal-metal to Superconductor Boundary Of Dissimilar Materials
This paper reanalyzes six decades of thermal transport data across normal-metal to superconductor interfaces to demonstrate that electronic heat transport, particularly when modeled using the Bardeen-Rickayzen-Teword (BRT) framework adapted with the Wiedemann-Franz law, is a dominant and necessary mechanism alongside phonons to explain experimental results across a wide temperature range, whereas other proposed electronic models fail to align with observations.