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Two different quasiparticle scattering rates in vortex line liquid phase of layered d-wave superconductors

Condensed Matter 2009-11-07 v2

Abstract

We carry out a quantum mechanical analysis of the behavior of nodal quasiparticles in the vortex line liquid phase of planar d-wave superconductors. Applying a novel path integral technique we calculate a number of experimentally relevant observables and demonstrate that in the low-field regime the quasiparticle scattering rates deduced from photoemission and thermal transport data can be markedly different from that extracted from tunneling, specific heat, superfluid stiffness or spin-lattice relaxation time.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0204215,
  title  = {Two different quasiparticle scattering rates in vortex line liquid phase of layered d-wave superconductors},
  author = {D. V. Khveshchenko and A. G. Yashenkin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0204215},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Latex, 4 pages, no figures