In high-Tc cuprates,many quantities exhibit a non-Fermi liquid universality\ud
hinting at a very peculiar structure of the underlying pairing mechanism for superconductivity:\ud
in this work, we focus on the universality for the in-plane resistivity and the\ud
superfluid density. We outline the previously developed spin–charge gauge approach\ud
to superconductivity in hole-doped cuprates: we decompose the hole of the t −t' − J\ud
model for the CuO2 planes as the product of a spinful, chargeless gapped spinon and\ud
a spinless, charged holon with Fermi surface. Each one of these particle excitations is\ud
bound to a statistical gauge flux, allowing one to optimize their statistics.We show that\ud
this model allows for a natural interpretation of the universality: within this approach,\ud
under suitable conditions, the spinonic and holonic contributions to a response function\ud
sum up according to the Ioffe–Larkin rule.We argue that, if the spinonic contribution\ud
dominates, then one should expect strongly non-Fermi-liquid-like universality, due\ud
to the insensitivity of spinons to Fermi surface details. The in-plane resistivity and\ud
superfluid density are indeed dominated by spinons in the underdoped region.We theoretically\ud
derive these quantities, discussing their universal behaviours and comparing\ud
them with experimental data