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Anomalous Scattering Rate And Microwave Absorption In Bi₂Sr₂Cacu₂O₈₊Δ And Y Ba₂Cu₃O₇₋Δ, C. Kusko, Z. Zhai, R. S. Markiewicz, S. Sridhar
Anomalous Scattering Rate And Microwave Absorption In Bi₂Sr₂Cacu₂O₈₊Δ And Y Ba₂Cu₃O₇₋Δ, C. Kusko, Z. Zhai, R. S. Markiewicz, S. Sridhar
Robert Markiewicz
We determine the scattering rate from microwave measurements for an optimally doped Bi-2212 single crystal, using a simple two fluid model with a d-wave symmetry order parameter. In the superconducting state, the calculated scattering rate is three orders of magnitude smaller than that determined from ARPES experiments. A similar anomalously large decrease in the scattering rate is also required to explain the data within a gap-quasiparticle scenario for other HTS, such as Y Ba₂Cu₃O₇₋δ. The results suggest that the assumption of normal excitations vanishing at low T is invalid and an additional charge mode is responsible for the microwave absorption.