Doping evolution of the electronic specific heat coefficient in slightly-doped La<sub>2-x</sub>Sr<sub>x</sub>CuO<sub>4</sub> single crystals
Seiki Komiya; I Tsukada; Seiki Komiya; Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Yokosuka, Kanagawa 240–0196, Japan; I Tsukada; Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Yokosuka, Kanagawa 240–0196, Japan
Журнал:
Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Дата:
2009-03-01
Аннотация:
Detailed doping dependence of the electronic specific heat coefficient γ is studied for La<sub>2-x</sub>Sr<sub>x</sub>CuO<sub>4</sub> (LSCO) single crystals in the slightly-doped regime. We find that γ systematically increases with doping, and furthermore, even for the samples in the antiferromagnetic (AF) regime, γ already acquires finite value and grows with x. This suggests that finite electronic density of states (DOS) is created in the AF regime where the transport shows strong localization at low temperatures, and this means the system is not a real insulator with a clear gap even though it still keeps long range AF order.
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