Published May 1, 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

Thermal conductivity of R2CuO4, with La, Pr, and Gd

  • 1. II. Physikalisches Institut, Universitaet zu Koeln, 50937 Cologne (Germany)
  • 2. Institute of Solid State and Semiconductor Physics, Belarussian Academy of Sciences, Minsk 220072 (Belarus)

Description

We present measurements of the in-plane (κab) and out-of-plane (κc) thermal conductivity of Pr2CuO4 and Gd2CuO4 single crystals. The anisotropy gives strong evidence for a large contribution of magnetic excitations to κab, i.e. for a heat current within the CuO2 planes. However, the absolute values of κmag are lower than previous results on La2CuO4. These differences probably arise from deviations from the nominal oxygen stoichiometry. This has a drastic influence on κmag, which is shown by an investigation of a La2CuO4+δ polycrystal

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physb.2006.01.411;
arXiv
arXiv:cond-mat/0508154v1;
PII
S0921-4526(06)00503-5;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physica. B, Condensed Matter
Journal Volume
378-380
Journal Page Range
p. 1064-1065
ISSN
0921-4526
CODEN
PHYBE3

Conference

Title
International conference on strongly correlated electron systems
Acronym
SCES 2005
Dates
26-30 Jul 2005
Place
Vienna (Austria)

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