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Anomalously high quasiparticle thermal conductivity in the underdoped cuprate superconductor HgBa2CuO4+δ

Jordan Baglo, Quentin Barthélemy, Étienne Lefrançois, Anne Forget, Dorothée Colson, Cyril Proust, and Louis Taillefer

Phys. Rev. B - Accepted 9 October, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/mb19-b6lq

Abstract

The single-layer cuprate superconductor HgBa2CuO4+δ (Hg1201) is an ideal candidate for investigating many properties of cuprates with minimal disorder and without the complication of multiple CuO2 layers. Here we measure the in-plane longitudinal thermal conductivity κ of underdoped Hg1201 ($T_c $= 76 K, p = 0.11) at dilution refrigerator temperatures to extract the nodal quasiparticle velocity ratio vF/vΔ. Assuming contributions from only a single line node per quadrant on the Fermi surface leads to a value of vF/vΔ=23±3, anomalously large compared to other cuprates at similar dopings. In conjunction with the anomalously high quasiparticle specific heat of Hg1201 in the normal state reported previously at a similar doping, this points to more than one Fermi surface sheet crossing the nodal line, suggesting the presence of more than the single small electron pocket detected by quantum oscillations.

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