Strange-metal behavior in La$_{2-x}$Sr$_x$CuO$_4$ beyond the stripe-percolation transition

The nature of the normal state of cuprate superconductors continues to stimulate considerable speculation. Of particular interest has been the linear temperature dependence of the in-plane resistivity in the low-temperature limit, which violates the prediction for a Fermi liquid. We present evidence that the behavior is a consequence of an inhomogeneous mixture of quasiparticles and strongly-correlated patches of spin and charge stripes. In the case of La$_{2-x}$Sr$_x$CuO$_4$, the strange-metal behavior is observed only for doped-hole concentrations that exceed the percolation threshold for stripe correlations, where we observe that the resistivity measured perpendicular to the planes develops a metallic temperature dependence.

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