Thermal Hall conductivity in the strongest cuprate superconductor: Estimate of the mean free path in the trilayer cuprate HgBa$_2$Ca$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{8 + δ}$

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Autori principali: Altangerel, Munkhtuguldur, Barthélemy, Quentin, Lefrançois, Étienne, Baglo, Jordan, Mezidi, Manel, Grissonnanche, Gaël, Vallipuram, Ashvini, Campillo, Emma, Forget, Anne, Colson, Dorothée, Liang, Ruixing, Bonn, D. A., Hardy, W. N., Proust, Cyril, Taillefer, Louis
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author Altangerel, Munkhtuguldur
Barthélemy, Quentin
Lefrançois, Étienne
Baglo, Jordan
Mezidi, Manel
Grissonnanche, Gaël
Vallipuram, Ashvini
Campillo, Emma
Forget, Anne
Colson, Dorothée
Liang, Ruixing
Bonn, D. A.
Hardy, W. N.
Proust, Cyril
Taillefer, Louis
author_facet Altangerel, Munkhtuguldur
Barthélemy, Quentin
Lefrançois, Étienne
Baglo, Jordan
Mezidi, Manel
Grissonnanche, Gaël
Vallipuram, Ashvini
Campillo, Emma
Forget, Anne
Colson, Dorothée
Liang, Ruixing
Bonn, D. A.
Hardy, W. N.
Proust, Cyril
Taillefer, Louis
contents The thermal Hall conductivity of the trilayer cuprate HgBa$_2$Ca$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{8+δ}$ (Hg1223) - the superconductor with the highest critical temperature $T_c$ at ambient pressure - was measured at temperatures down to 2 K for three dopings in the underdoped regime ($p$ = 0.09, 0.10, 0.11). By combining a previously introduced simple model and prior theoretical results, we derive a formula for the inverse mean free path, $1 / \ell$, which allows us to estimate the mean free path of $d$-wave quasiparticles in Hg1223 below $T_c$. We find that $1 / \ell$ grows as $T^3$, in agreement with the theoretical expectation for a clean $d$-wave superconductor. Measurements were also conducted on the single layer mercury-based cuprate HgBa$_2$CuO$_{6+δ}$ (Hg1201), revealing that the mean free path in this compound is roughly half that of its three-layered counterpart at the same doping ($p$ = 0.10). This observation is be attributed to the protective role of the outer planes in Hg1223, which results in a more pristine inner plane. We also report data in an ultraclean crystal of YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_y$ (YBCO) with full oxygen content $p$ = 0.18, believed to be the cleanest of any cuprate, and find that $\ell$ is not longer than in Hg1223.
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spellingShingle Thermal Hall conductivity in the strongest cuprate superconductor: Estimate of the mean free path in the trilayer cuprate HgBa$_2$Ca$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{8 + δ}$
Altangerel, Munkhtuguldur
Barthélemy, Quentin
Lefrançois, Étienne
Baglo, Jordan
Mezidi, Manel
Grissonnanche, Gaël
Vallipuram, Ashvini
Campillo, Emma
Forget, Anne
Colson, Dorothée
Liang, Ruixing
Bonn, D. A.
Hardy, W. N.
Proust, Cyril
Taillefer, Louis
Superconductivity
Strongly Correlated Electrons
The thermal Hall conductivity of the trilayer cuprate HgBa$_2$Ca$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{8+δ}$ (Hg1223) - the superconductor with the highest critical temperature $T_c$ at ambient pressure - was measured at temperatures down to 2 K for three dopings in the underdoped regime ($p$ = 0.09, 0.10, 0.11). By combining a previously introduced simple model and prior theoretical results, we derive a formula for the inverse mean free path, $1 / \ell$, which allows us to estimate the mean free path of $d$-wave quasiparticles in Hg1223 below $T_c$. We find that $1 / \ell$ grows as $T^3$, in agreement with the theoretical expectation for a clean $d$-wave superconductor. Measurements were also conducted on the single layer mercury-based cuprate HgBa$_2$CuO$_{6+δ}$ (Hg1201), revealing that the mean free path in this compound is roughly half that of its three-layered counterpart at the same doping ($p$ = 0.10). This observation is be attributed to the protective role of the outer planes in Hg1223, which results in a more pristine inner plane. We also report data in an ultraclean crystal of YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_y$ (YBCO) with full oxygen content $p$ = 0.18, believed to be the cleanest of any cuprate, and find that $\ell$ is not longer than in Hg1223.
title Thermal Hall conductivity in the strongest cuprate superconductor: Estimate of the mean free path in the trilayer cuprate HgBa$_2$Ca$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{8 + δ}$
topic Superconductivity
Strongly Correlated Electrons
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.17623