Electronic specific heat and low energy quasiparticle excitations in superconducting state of $La_{2-x}Sr_xCuO_4$ single crystals

Details Electronic specific heat and low energy quasiparticle excitations in superconducting state of $La_{2-x}Sr_xCuO_4$ single crystals Electronic specific heat and low energy quasiparticle excitations in superconducting state of $La_{2-x}Sr_xCuO_4$ single crystals

2004-06-30

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0406741v1

Physical Review B 70, 214505(2004)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

15 pages, 24 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.70.214505

Low temperature specific heat has been measured and extensively analyzed on a series of $La_{2-x}Sr_xCuO_4$ single crystals from underdoped to overdoped regime. From these data the quasiparticle density of states (DOS) in the mixed state is derived and compared to the predicted scaling law $C_{vol}/T\sqrt{H}=f(T/\sqrt{H})$ of d-wave superconductivity. It is found that the scaling law can be nicely followed by the optimally doped sample (x=0.15) in quite wide region of ($T/\sqrt{H} \leq 8 K /\sqrt{T}$). However, the region for this scaling becomes smaller and smaller towards more underdoped region: a clear trend can be seen for samples from x=0.15 to 0.069. Therefore, generally speaking, the scaling quality becomes worse on the underdoped samples in terms of scalable region of $T/\sqrt{H}$. This feature in the underdoped region is explained as due to the low energy excitations from a second order (for example, anti-ferromagnetic correlation, d-density wave, spin density wave or charge density wave order) that may co-exist or compete with superconductivity. Surprisingly, deviations from the d-wave scaling law have also been found for the overdoped sample (x=0.22). While the scaling law is reconciled for the overdoped sample when the core size effect is taken into account. An important discovery of present work is that the zero-temperature data follow the Volovik's relation $\Delta \gamma(T=0)=A\sqrt{H}$ quite well for all samples investigated here although the applicability of the d-wave scaling law to the data at finite temperatures varies with doped hole concentration. Finally we present the doping dependence of some parameters, such as, the residual linear term $\gamma_0$, the $\alpha$ value, etc. ...

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