1. Transport signatures of the pseudogap critical point in the cuprate superconductor Bi2Sr2−xLaxCuO6+δ
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Lizaire, M., Legros, A., Gourgout, A., Benhabib, S., Badoux, S., Laliberté, F., Boulanger, M.-E., Ataei, A., Grissonnanche, G., Lebøeuf, David, Licciardello, S., Wiedmann, S., Ono, S., Raffy, H., Kawasaki, S., Zheng, G.-q., Doiron-Leyraud, N., Proust, Cyril, Taillefer, L., Laboratoire national des champs magnétiques intenses - Grenoble (LNCMI-G ), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Toulouse (INSA Toulouse), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Laboratoire national des champs magnétiques intenses - Toulouse (LNCMI-T), Institut Quantique [Sherbrooke] (UdeS), Université de Sherbrooke (UdeS), Service de physique de l'état condensé (SPEC - UMR3680), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), High Field Magnet Laboratory (HFML-EMFL), Radboud University [Nijmegen], Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Laboratoire de Physique des Solides (LPS), Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Physics, Okayama University, Okayama University, Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences [Beijing] (CAS), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), and ANR-19-CE30-0019,neptun,Nouvelles approches du problème des supraconducteurs à haute température(2019)
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[PHYS.COND.CM-S]Physics [physics]/Condensed Matter [cond-mat]/Superconductivity [cond-mat.supr-con] ,Condensed Matter::Superconductivity ,Condensed Matter::Strongly Correlated Electrons - Abstract
International audience; Five transport coefficients of the cuprate superconductor Bi 2 Sr 2−x La x CuO 6+δ were measured in the normal state down to low temperature, reached by applying a magnetic field (up to 66 T) large enough to suppress superconductivity. The electrical resistivity, Hall coefficient, thermal conductivity, Seebeck coefficient, and thermal Hall conductivity were measured in two overdoped single crystals, with La concentration x = 0.2 (T c = 18 K) and x = 0.0 (T c = 10 K). The samples have dopings p very close to the critical doping p where the pseudogap phase ends. The resistivity displays a linear dependence on temperature whose slope is consistent with Planckian dissipation. The Hall number n H decreases with reduced p, consistent with a drop in carrier density from n = 1 + p above p to n = p below p. This drop in n H is concomitant with a sharp drop in the density of states inferred from prior NMR Knight shift measurements. The thermal conductivity satisfies the Wiedemann-Franz law, showing that the pseudogap phase at T = 0 is a metal whose fermionic excitations carry heat and charge as do conventional electrons. The Seebeck coefficient diverges logarithmically at low temperature, a signature of quantum criticality. The thermal Hall conductivity becomes negative at low temperature, showing that phonons are chiral in the pseudogap phase. Given the observation of these same properties in other, very different cuprates, our study provides strong evidence for the universality of these five signatures of the pseudogap phase and its critical point.
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- 2021
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