Strong charge fluctuations manifested in the high-temperature Hall coefficient of high-T_c cuprates

Details Strong charge fluctuations manifested in the high-temperature Hall coefficient of high-T_c cuprates Strong charge fluctuations manifested in the high-temperature Hall coefficient of high-T_c cuprates

2006-10-13

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0610361v2

Phys. Rev. B 75, 024515 (2007)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

9 pages, 8 figures; final version, to appear in Phys. Rev. B

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.75.024515

By measuring the Hall coefficient R_H up to 1000 K in La_2CuO_4, Pr_{1.3}La_{0.7}CuO_4, and La_{2-x}Sr_xCuO_4 (LSCO), we found that the temperature (T) dependence of R_H in LSCO for x = 0 - 0.05 at high temperature undoubtedly signifies a gap over which the charge carriers are thermally activated, which in turn indicates that in lightly-doped cuprates strong charge fluctuations are present at high temperature and the carrier number is not a constant. At higher doping (x = 0.08 - 0.21), the high-temperature R_H(T) behavior is found to be qualitatively the same, albeit with a weakened temperature dependence, and we attempt to understand its behavior in terms of a phenomenological two-carrier model where the thermal activation is considered for one of the two species. Despite the crude nature of the model, our analysis gives a reasonable account of R_H both at high temperature and at 0 K for a wide range of doping, suggesting that charge fluctuations over a gap remain important at high temperature in LSCO deep into the superconducting doping regime. Moreover, our model gives a perspective to understand the seemingly contradicting high-temperature behavior of R_H and the in-plane resistivity near optimum doping in a consistent manner. Finally, we discuss possible implications of our results on such issues as the scattering-time separation and the large pseudogap.

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