Abstract
Recently Chakravarty, Laughlin, Morr, and Nayak [Phys. Rev. B 62, 4880 (2000)] made an interesting proposal that the cuprate superconductors possess a hidden “d-density-wave” (DDW) order. We study the implication of this proposal for the superfluid density ρs. We find that it predicts a temperature gradient |dρs/dT|T=0 that is strongly doping dependent near the critical doping at which the superconducting gap vanishes. This demonstrates that the DDW scenario is inconsistent with existing well-established experimental data.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 77004-1-77004-4 |
| Journal | Physical Review Letters |
| Volume | 87 |
| Issue number | 7 |
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| State | Published - 13 Aug 2001 |
| Externally published | Yes |