Logarithmic Upturn in Low-Temperature Electronic Transport as a Signature of d-Wave Order in Cuprate Superconductors

Abstract

In cuprate superconductors, high magnetic fields have been used extensively to suppress superconductivity and expose the underlying normal state. Early measurements revealed insulating-like behavior in underdoped material versus temperature $T$, in which resistivity increases on cooling with a puzzling $\log (1/T)$ form. We instead use microwave measurements of flux-flow resistivity in YBa${}_2$Cu${}_3$O${}_{6+y}$ and Tl${}_2$Ba${}_2$CuO${}_{6+\delta }$ to study charge transport deep inside the superconducting phase, in the low temperature and low field regime. Here, the transition from metallic low-temperature resistivity ($d\rho /dT>0$) to a $\log (1/T)$ upturn persists throughout the superconducting doping range, including a regime at high carrier dopings in which the field-revealed normal-state resistivity is Fermi-liquid-like. The $\log (1/T)$ form is thus likely a signature of $d$-wave superconducting order, and the field-revealed normal state's $\log (1/T)$ resistivity may indicate the free-flux-flow regime of a phase-disordered $d$-wave superconductor.

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