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arxiv: 0904.1704 · v1 · submitted 2009-04-10 · ❄️ cond-mat.supr-con · cond-mat.str-el

Comment on "Low-temperature phonon thermal conductivity of single-crystalline Nd₂CuO₄: Effects of sample size and surface roughness" by Li et al.

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In this Comment, we show that the experimental data reported by Li {\it et al.} (Phys. Rev. B {\bf 77}, 134501 (2008)) do not support the phonon specular reflection at low temperatures for high-T_c cuprates, because the phonon mean free path \ell calculated from their thermal conductivity data is much smaller than the averaged sample width above \sim 100 mK for both Nd_{2}CuO_{4} and YBa_{2}Cu_{3}O_{6.0} single crystals.

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