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Heat Transport in a Strongly Overdoped Cuprate: Fermi Liquid and Pure d-wave BCS Superconductor

Cyril Proust, Etienne Boaknin, R. W. Hill, Louis Taillefer, A. P. Mackenzie

cond-mat.supr-conarXiv:cond-mat/0202101

Abstract

The transport of heat and charge in the overdoped cuprate superconductor Tl2Ba2CuO(6+delta) was measured down to low temperature. In the normal state, obtained by applying a magnetic field greater than the upper critical field, the Wiedemann-Franz law is verified to hold perfectly. In the superconducting state, a large residual linear term is observed in the thermal conductivity, in quantitative agreement with BCS theory for a d-wave superconductor. This is compelling evidence that the electrons in overdoped cuprates form a Fermi liquid, with no indication of spin-charge separation.

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