Theory of thermal conductivity in YBa2Cu3O7-delta

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Hirschfeld, PJ [1 ]
Putikka, WO [1 ]
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[1] UNIV CINCINNATI, DEPT PHYS, CINCINNATI, OH 45221 USA
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.3909
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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We calculate the electronic thermal conductivity in a d-wave superconductor, including both the effect of impurity scattering and inelastic scattering by antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations. We argue that phonons dominate heat transport near T-c, but that electrons are responsible for most of the peak observed in clean samples, The peak position is predicted to vary nonmonotonically with disorder, in good agreement with experiments on YBa2(Cu1-xZnx)(3)O-7-delta.
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页码:3909 / 3912
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