Physics – Condensed Matter – Superconductivity
Scientific paper
2001-08-03
Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 077001 (2002)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Superconductivity
5 pages, 3 figures, final version published in PRL. Discussions have been modified and an analysis of the phonon term has been
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.077001
The thermal conductivity \kappa is measured in a series of La_{2-x}Sr_{x}CuO_{4} (x = 0 - 0.22) single crystals down to 90 mK to elucidate the evolution of the residual electronic thermal conductivity \kappa_{res}, which probes the extended quasiparticle states in the d-wave gap. We found that \kappa_{res}/T grows smoothly, except for a 1/8 anomaly, above x = 0.05 and shows no discontinuity at optimum doping, indicating that the behavior of \kappa_{res}/T is not governed by the metal-insulator crossover in the normal state; as a result, \kappa_{res}/T is much larger than what the normal-state resistivity would suggest in the underdoped region, which highlights the peculiarities in the low-energy physics in the cuprates.
Ando Yoichi
Komiya Seiki
Sun X. F.
Takeya J.
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