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Weak coupling d-wave BCS superconductivity and unpaired electrons in overdoped La_{2-x}Sr_{x}CuO_{4} single crystals
The low-temperature specific heat (SH) of overdoped La_{2-x}Sr_{x}CuO_{4}
single crystals (0.178=<x=<0.290) has been measured. For the superconducting
samples (0.178=<x=<0.238), the derived gap values (without any adjusting
parameters) approach closely onto the theoretical prediction
\Delta_{0}=2.14k_{B}T_{c} for the weak-coupling d-wave BCS superconductivity.
In addition, the residual term \gamma(0) of SH at H=0 increases with x
dramatically when beyond x~0.22, and finally evolves into the value of a
complete normal metallic state at higher doping levels, indicating growing
amount of unpaired electrons. We argue that this large \gamma(0) cannot be
simply attributed to the pair breaking induced by the impurity scattering,
instead the phase separation is possible.Comment: 6 pages, 6 figures; Contents added; Accepted for publication in Phys.
Rev.
Evidence for s-wave pairing from measurement on lower critical field in
Magnetization measurements in the low field region have been carefully
performed on a well-shaped cylindrical and an ellipsoidal sample of
superconductor . Data from both samples show almost the same results.
The lower critical field and the London penetration depth
are thus derived. It is found that the result of normalized superfluid density
of can be well described by BCS
prediction with the expectation for an isotropic s-wave superconductivity.Comment: To appear in Phys. Rev.
Spin-orbit scattering in quantum diffusion of massive Dirac fermions
Effect of spin-orbit scattering on quantum diffusive transport of
two-dimensional massive Dirac fermions is studied by the diagrammatic
technique. The quantum diffusion of massive Dirac fermions can be viewed as a
singlet Cooperon in the massless limit and a triplet Cooperon in the large-mass
limit. The spin-orbit scattering behaves like random magnetic fields only to
the triplet Cooperon, and suppresses the weak localization of Dirac fermions in
the large-mass regime. This behavior suggests an experiment to detect the weak
localization of bulk subbands in topological insulator thin films, in which a
narrowing of the cusp of the negative magnetoconductivity is expected after
doping heavy-element impurities. Finally, a detailed comparison between the
conventional two-dimensional electrons and Dirac fermions is presented for
impurities of orthogonal, symplectic, and unitary symmetries.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables. To be submitted, comments are welcom
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