Quasiparticle Thermal Hall Angle and Magnetoconductance inYBa2Cu3Ox

Abstract
We present a way to extract the quasiparticle thermal conductivity κe and mean free path in YBa2Cu3Ox using the thermal Hall effect and the field dependence of κe. The results compare well with heat capacity experiments. Moreover, we find a simple relation between the thermal Hall angle θQ and the H dependence of κe, as well as numerical equality between θQ and the electrical Hall angle. The results also reveal an anomalously anisotropic scattering process in the normal state.
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