Logarithmic Upturn in Low-Temperature Electronic Transport as a Signature of d-Wave Order in Cuprate Superconductors

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Contributors

  • Xiaoqing Zhou - (Author)
  • D. C. Peets - , University of British Columbia, Fudan University (Second author)
  • Benjamin Morgan - (Author)
  • W. A. Huttema - (Author)
  • N. C. Murphy - (Author)
  • E. Thewalt - (Author)
  • C. J. S. Truncik - (Author)
  • P. J. Turner - (Author)
  • A. J. Koenig - (Author)
  • J. R. Waldram - (Author)
  • A. Hosseini - (Author)
  • Ruixing Liang - (Author)
  • D. A. Bonn - (Author)
  • W. N. Hardy - (Author)
  • D. M. Broun - (Author)

Abstract

In cuprate superconductors, high magnetic fields have been used extensively to suppress superconductivity and expose the underlying normal state. Early measurements revealed insulatinglike behavior in underdoped material versus temperature T, in which resistivity increases on cooling with a puzzling log(1/T) form. We instead use microwave measurements of flux-flow resistivity in YBa2Cu3O6+y and Tl2Ba2CuO6+δ to study charge transport deep inside the superconducting phase, in the low-temperature and low-field regime. Here, the transition from metallic low-temperature resistivity (dρ/dT>0) to a log(1/T) upturn persists throughout the superconducting doping range, including a regime at high carrier dopings in which the field-revealed normal-state resistivity is Fermi-liquid-like. The log(1/T) form is thus likely a signature of d-wave superconducting order, and the field-revealed normal state’s log(1/T) resistivity may indicate the free-flux-flow regime of a phase-disordered d-wave superconductor.

Details

Original languageUndefined
Article number267004
JournalPhysical review letters
Volume121
Publication statusPublished - 28 Dec 2018
Peer-reviewedYes
Externally publishedYes

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Scopus 85059227653

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