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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 72, Issue 21, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.72.214511
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We present a study of heat transport in the cuprate superconductor Bi2+xSr2-xCuO6+delta at sub-Kelvin temperatures and in magnetic fields as high as 25 T. In several samples with different doping levels close to optimal, the linear-temperature term of thermal conductivity was measured both at zero field and in presence of a magnetic field strong enough to quench superconductivity. The zero-field data yields a superconducting gap of reasonable magnitude displaying a doping dependence similar to the one reported in other families of cuprate. The normal-state data together with the results of the resistivity measurements allows us to test the Wiedemann-Franz (WF) law, the validity of which was confirmed in an overdoped sample in agreement with previous studies. In contrast, a systematic deviation from the WF law was resolved for samples displaying either a lower doping content or a higher disorder. Thus, in the vicinity of the metal-insulator crossover, heat conduction in the zero-temperature limit appears to become significantly larger than predicted by the WF law. Possible origins of this observation are discussed.
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