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Transport implications of Fermi arcs in the pseudogap phase of the cuprates

A. Levchenko, T. Micklitz, M. R. Norman, and I. Paul
Phys. Rev. B 82, 060502(R) – Published 4 August 2010

Abstract

We derive the fermionic contribution to the longitudinal and Hall conductivities within a Kubo formalism, using a phenomenological Green’s function which has been previously developed to describe photoemission data in the pseudogap phase of the cuprates. We find that the in-plane electrical and thermal conductivities are metalliclike, showing a universal limit behavior characteristic of a d-wave spectrum as the scattering rate goes to zero. In contrast, the c-axis resistivity and the Hall number are insulatinglike, being divergent in the same limit. The relation of these results to transport data in the pseudogap phase is discussed.

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  • Received 27 May 2010

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.82.060502

©2010 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

A. Levchenko1, T. Micklitz2, M. R. Norman1, and I. Paul3

  • 1Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
  • 2Dahlem Center for Complex Quantum Systems and Institut für Theoretische Physik, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany
  • 3Institut Néel, CNRS/UJF, 25 avenue des Martyrs, BP 166, 38042 Grenoble, France

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Vol. 82, Iss. 6 — 1 August 2010

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