Physics – Condensed Matter – Superconductivity
Scientific paper
2009-04-13
Physics
Condensed Matter
Superconductivity
1 page, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. B
Scientific paper
In their comment \cite{Sun} on our study of phonon heat transport in Nd$_2$CuO$_4$ \cite{Li}, Sun and Ando estimate that the phonon mean free path at low temperature is roughly half the width of the single crystal used in our study, from which they argue that phonon scattering cannot be dominated by sample boundaries. Here we show that their use of specific heat data on Nd$_2$CuO$_4$, which contains a large magnetic contribution at low temperature that is difficult to reliably extract, leads to an underestimate of the mean free path by a factor two compared to an estimate based on the specific heat data of the non-magnetic isostructural analog Pr$_2$CuO$_4$. This removes the apparent contradiction raised by Sun and Ando.
Bonnemaison Jean-Baptiste
Chen Hua-Xing
Fournier Patricia
Li Shi-Yan
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