Anisotropic resistivity of YBa2Cu4O8: Incoherent-to-metallic crossover in the out-of-plane transport
Anisotropic resistivity of YBa2Cu4O8: Incoherent-to-metallic crossover in the out-of-plane transport
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DOI:
10.1103/physrevb.56.r11423
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发表时间:
1997-11-01
影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
Tanabe, K
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作者:
Hussey, NE;Nozawa, K;Tanabe, K
The resistivities: of high-quality single crystals of YBa2Cu4O8 have been measured along all three crystallographic axes up to 450 K. Both the in-plane and out-of-plane resistivities show a distinct change in behavior on cooling from high temperatures. The chain resistivity rho(chain)(T), by contrast, obeys a T-2 law over the entire temperature range. The c-axis resistivity rho(c)(T) is almost T independent at high T, but as the temperature is reduced, the slope d rho(c)/dT gradually increases and the c-axis transport crosses over from incoherent to metallic, implying the onset of three-dimensional conductivity at low T. These measurements reveal that thenonmetallic behavior of rho(c) (T) in underdoped cuprates is not universal. [S0163-1829(97)50242-6].