Planckian dissipation and c-axis superfluid density in cuprate superconductors

Abstract

An interesting concept in condensed matter physics is Planckian dissipation, in particular its manifestation in a remarkable phenomenology of superfluid density as a function of superconducting transition temperatures of cuprate high-temperature superconductors. The concept was introduced for $ab$-plane properties. However, here I show that when suitably interpreted, it is also applicable to the $c$-axis resistivity, which has not been adequately addressed previously. There are two results in this note: the first is a derivation using Kubo formula as to how Planckian dissipation could arise. It is aided by the fact that the $c$-axis tunneling matrix element is small enough such that a second order perturbation theory combined with presumed non-Fermi liquid behavior is sufficient to illuminate the phenomenon. In addition, the notion of quantum criticality plays an important role.