Universal T-linear resistivity and Planckian dissipation in overdoped cuprates
Universal T-linear resistivity and Planckian dissipation in overdoped cuprates
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DOI:
10.1038/s41567-018-0334-2
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发表时间:
2019-02-01
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19.6
通讯作者:
Proust, C.
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作者:
Legros, A.;Benhabib, S.;Proust, C.
The perfectly linear temperature dependence of the electrical resistivity observed as T -> 0 in a variety of metals close to a quantum critical point(1-4) is a major puzzle of condensed-matter physics(5). Here we show that T-linear resistivity as T -> 0 is a generic property of cuprates, associated with a universal scattering rate. We measured the low-temperature resistivity of the bilayer cuprate Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+delta and found that it exhibits a T-linear dependence with the same slope as in the single-layer cuprates Bi2Sr2CuO6+delta (ref.(6)), La1.6-xNd0.4SrxCuO4 (ref.(7)) and La2-xSrxCuO4 (ref.(8)), despite their very different Fermi surfaces and structural, superconducting and magnetic properties. We then show that the T-linear coefficient (per CuO2 plane), A(1)(square), is given by the universal relation A(1)(square)T(F) = h/2e(2), where e is the electron charge, h is the Planck constant and T-F is the Fermi temperature. This relation, obtained by assuming that the scattering rate 1/tau of charge carriers reaches the Planckian limit(9,10), whereby h/tau = k(B)T, works not only for hole-doped cuprates(6-8,11,12) but also for electron-doped cuprates(13,14), despite the different nature of their quantum critical point and strength of their electron correlations.