Physics – Condensed Matter – Superconductivity
Scientific paper
2000-12-20
Physics
Condensed Matter
Superconductivity
3 pages, 1 figure
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0921-4534(01)00710-9
Hill et al. have recently measured both the thermal and charge conductivities in the normal state of a high temperature superconductor. Based on the vanishing of the Wiedemann-Franz ratio in the extrapolated zero temperature limit, they conclude that the charge carriers in this material are not fermionic. Here I make a simple observation that the prefactor in the temperature dependence of the measured thermal conductivity is unusually large, corresponding to an extremely small energy scale $T_0 \approx 0.15$ K. I argue that $T_0$ should be interpreted as a collective scale. Based on model-independent considerations, I also argue that the experiment leads to two possibilities: 1) The charge-carrying excitations are non-fermionic. And much of the heat current is in fact carried by distinctive charge-neutral excitations; 2) The charge-carrying excitations are fermionic, but a subtle ordering transition occurs at $T_0$.
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