Effects of doping on thermally excited quasiparticles in the highT_c superconducting sta.pdfVIP

Effects of doping on thermally excited quasiparticles in the high-Tc superconducting state T. Xiang Institute of Theoretical Physics, Academia Sinica, P.O.Box 2735, Beijing 100080, People’s Republic of China 9 9 C. Panagopoulos 9 Cavendish Laboratory and IRC in Superconductivity, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 OHE, United 1 Kingdom c (February 1, 2008) e D The physical properties of low energy superconducting quasiparticles in high- Tc superconductors are examined using magnetic penetration depth and specific heat experimental data. We find that 4 the low energy density of states of quasiparticles of La Sr CuO scales with (x − x ) /T to the 2−x x 4 c c 1 leading order approximation, where xc is the critical doping concentration below which Tc = 0. The ] linear temperature term of the superfluid density is renormalized by quasiparticle interactions and n the renormalization factor times the Fermi velocity is found to be doping independent. o c - r −2 p In high-Tc superconductors (HTS), the low energy den- it can be shown that the slopes of λ and γ at zero sity of states (DOS) is linear due to the d 2 2-wave temperature are given by u