High-field quasiparticle tunneling in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O(8+delta): negative magnetoresistance in the superconducting state

N Morozov; L Krusin-Elbaum; T Shibauchi; LN Bulaevskii; MP Maley; YI Latyshev; T Yamashita

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.1784

High-field quasiparticle tunneling in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O(8+delta): negative magnetoresistance in the superconducting state

Phys Rev Lett. 2000 Feb 21;84(8):1784-7. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.1784.

Authors

N Morozov¹, L Krusin-Elbaum, T Shibauchi, LN Bulaevskii, MP Maley, YI Latyshev, T Yamashita

Affiliation

¹ Los Alamos National Laboratory, MST-STC, MS-K763, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA.

PMID: 11017625
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.1784

Abstract

We report on the c-axis resistivity rho(c)(H) in Bi(2)Sr(2)CaCu(2)O(8+delta) that peaks in quasistatic magnetic fields up to 60 T. By suppressing the Josephson part of the two-channel (Cooper pair/quasiparticle) conductivity sigma(c)(H), we find that the negative slope of rho(c)(H) above the peak is due to quasiparticle tunneling conductivity sigma(q)(H) across the CuO2 layers below H(c2). At high fields (a) sigma(q)(H) grows linearly with H, and (b) rho(c)(T) tends to saturate ( sigma(c) not equal0) as T-->0, consistent with the scattering at the nodes of the d-wave gap. A superlinear sigma(q)(H) marks the normal state above T(c).