Superfluid density of strongly underdoped cuprate superconductors from a four-dimensional XY model.
A new phenomenology is proposed for the superfluid density rhos of strongly underdoped cuprate superconductors based on recent data for ultraclean single crystals of YBa2Cu3O7-x. We show that the puzzling departure from Uemura scaling and the decline of the slope as the Tc=0 quantum critical point is approached can be understood in terms of the renormalization of quasiparticle effective charge by quantum fluctuations of the superconducting phase. We then employ a (3+1)-dimensional XY model to calculate, within particular approximations, the renormalization of rhos and its slope, explain the new phenomenology, and predict its eventual demise close to the quantum critical point.
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z1.
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