The sign reversal of the Hall Resistance in the flux flow regime of Bi2Sr2Ca1Cu2O8+delta


  Yuval Nitzav  ,  Amit Kanigel  
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The Hall anomaly in the High temperature superconductors (HTSC) is an open question for more then 30 years.
In this work we have decoupled the critical temperatures and doping of Bi2212 samples by introducing Zn atoms
to the crystal. This reduces the critical temperature without affecting the doping level of the samples. Our pristine
and Zn substituted Bi2212 samples are in a wide range of critical temperatures and doping levels. We performed
Hall measurements in a wide range of temperatures (15-300 K) and magnetic fields (up to 14T) and found that the
sign reversal line in the B-T plane is determined by the critical temperature and is indifferent to the doping level of
the samples. We calculated the deviation of the Hall conductivity from the Bardeen-Stephen model and introduced
a phenomenological function for the behavior of the Hall deviation as a function of magnetic field. The deviation is
found to be doping independent suggesting that the Hall sign reversal is not related to any competing other phase.