Measurements of the doping effects on the in-plane paraconductivity in cuprate superconductors

Abstract

We will summarize here some of our measurements of the superconducting fluctuations effects on the in-plane electrical resistivity (the so-called in-plane paraconductivity) in La_{2-x}Sr_xCuO_4 thin films with different Sr content. Our results suggest that these superconducting fluctuations effects are not related to the opening of a pseudogap in the normal-state of underdoped compounds.

7 pages and 3 figures (LaTeX and .eps). Contribution to the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on New Challenges in Superconductivity: Experimental Advances and Emerging Theories (University of Miami Workshop on Unconventional Superconductivity)