Heat transport in a strongly overdoped cuprate:: Fermi liquid and a pure d-wave BCS superconductor -: art. no. 147003

The transport of heat and charge in the overdoped cuprate superconductor Tl2Ba2CuO6+delta was measured down to low temperature. In the normal state, obtained by applying a magnetic field greater than the upper critical field, the Wiedemann-Franz law is verified to hold perfectly. In the superconducting state, a large residual linear term is observed in the thermal conductivity, in quantitative agreement with BCS theory for a d-wave superconductor. This is compelling evidence that the electrons in overdoped cuprates form a Fermi liquid, with no indication of spin-charge separation.