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Strictly In-Plane Vortex-like Excitations in Pseudogap Region of Underdoped La2-xSrxCuO4 Single Crystals

H. H. Wen, Z. Y. Liu, Z. A. Xu, Z. Y. Weng, F. Zhou, Z. X. Zhao

cond-mat.supr-conarXiv:cond-mat/0301367

Abstract

Nernst effect has been measured for an underdoped and an optimally doped La2-xSrxCuO4 single crystal with the magnetic field applied along different directions. For both samples, when H \| c, a significant Nernst voltage appears above Tc and keeps measurable up to a high temperature (100 K) as reported by Xu et al.[ Nature 406, 486(2000) ]. However, when H \| a-b plane the Nernst signal drops below the noise level quickly above Tc for the underdoped sample. Moreover, the in-plane Nernst data with field at different angles shows a nice scaling behavior with the c-axis component of the field. All these give strong indication for strictly in-plane vortex-like excitations in pseudo-gap region.

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