Thermal Transport Properties of Bechgaard Salts (TMTSF)2PF6 and (TMTSF)2ClO4: Implication of Spin–Charge Separation

We report thermal transport measurements performed on the quasi-one-dimensional Bechgaard salts (TMTSF) 2 ClO 4 and (TMTSF) 2 PF 6 along the a -direction. For both salts, magnon-drag effects are found to contribute considerably to thermopower above 80 K. These results imply spin–charge separation in the metallic state for both salts. Moreover, a linear temperature-dependent thermal conductivity is found to be unaffected by anion disorder below an anion ordering transition temperature T AO ∼25 K in (TMTSF) 2 ClO 4 .