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Ekino T, Gabovich AM, Suan Li M, Szymczak H, Voitenko AI. Quasiparticle conductance-voltage characteristics for break junctions involving d-wave superconductors: charge-density-wave effects. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2017; 29:505602. [PMID: 29105650 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/aa9867] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Quasiparticle tunnel conductance-voltage characteristics (CVCs), [Formula: see text], were calculated for break junctions (BJs) made up of layered d-wave superconductors partially gapped by charge-density waves (CDWs). The current is assumed to flow in the ab-plane of electrodes. The influence of CDWs is analyzed by comparing the resulting CVCs with CVCs calculated for BJs made up of pure d-wave superconductors with relevant parameters. The main CDW-effects were found to be the appearance of new CVC peculiarities and the loss of CVC symmetry with respect to the V-sign. Tunnel directionality was shown to be one of the key factors in the formation of [Formula: see text] dependences. In particular, the orientation of electrodes with respect to the current channel becomes very important. As a result, [Formula: see text] can acquire a large variety of forms similar to those for tunnel junctions between superconductors with s-wave, d-wave, and mixed symmetry of their order parameters. The diversity of peculiarities is especially striking at finite temperatures. In the case of BJs made up of pure d-wave superconductors, the resulting CVC can include a two-peak gap-driven structure. The results were compared with the experimental BJ data for a number of high-T c oxides. It was shown that the large variety of the observed current-voltage characteristics can be interpreted in the framework of our approach. Thus, quasiparticle tunnel currents in the ab-plane can be used as an additional mean to detect CDWs competing with superconductivity in cuprates or other layered superconductors.
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- T Ekino
- Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Higashi-Hiroshima, 739-8521, Japan
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Ekino T, Gabovich AM, Suan Li M, Szymczak H, Voitenko AI. Influence of the spatially inhomogeneous gap distribution on the quasiparticle current in c-axis junctions involving d-wave superconductors with charge density waves. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2016; 28:445701. [PMID: 27604150 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/28/44/445701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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The quasiparticle tunnel current J(V) between the superconducting ab-planes along the c-axis and the corresponding conductance [Formula: see text] were calculated for symmetric junctions composed of disordered d-wave layered superconductors partially gapped by charge density waves (CDWs). Here, V is the voltage. Both the checkerboard and unidirectional CDWs were considered. It was shown that the spatial spread of the CDW-pairing strength substantially smears the peculiarities of G(V) appropriate to uniform superconductors. The resulting curves G(V) become very similar to those observed for a number of cuprates in intrinsic junctions, e.g. mesas. In particular, the influence of CDWs may explain the peak-dip-hump structures frequently found for high-T c oxides.
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- T Ekino
- Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Higashi-Hiroshima, 739-8521, Japan
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Vishik IM, Hashimoto M, He RH, Lee WS, Schmitt F, Lu D, Moore RG, Zhang C, Meevasana W, Sasagawa T, Uchida S, Fujita K, Ishida S, Ishikado M, Yoshida Y, Eisaki H, Hussain Z, Devereaux TP, Shen ZX. Phase competition in trisected superconducting dome. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2012; 109:18332-7. [PMID: 23093670 PMCID: PMC3494935 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1209471109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 204] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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A detailed phenomenology of low energy excitations is a crucial starting point for microscopic understanding of complex materials, such as the cuprate high-temperature superconductors. Because of its unique momentum-space discrimination, angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) is ideally suited for this task in the cuprates, where emergent phases, particularly superconductivity and the pseudogap, have anisotropic gap structure in momentum space. We present a comprehensive doping- and temperature-dependence ARPES study of spectral gaps in Bi(2)Sr(2)CaCu(2)O(8+δ), covering much of the superconducting portion of the phase diagram. In the ground state, abrupt changes in near-nodal gap phenomenology give spectroscopic evidence for two potential quantum critical points, p = 0.19 for the pseudogap phase and p = 0.076 for another competing phase. Temperature dependence reveals that the pseudogap is not static below T(c) and exists p > 0.19 at higher temperatures. Our data imply a revised phase diagram that reconciles conflicting reports about the endpoint of the pseudogap in the literature, incorporates phase competition between the superconducting gap and pseudogap, and highlights distinct physics at the edge of the superconducting dome.
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- I. M. Vishik
- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences and
- Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Departments of Physics and Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
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- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, 94025
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- Department of Physics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
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- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences and
- Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Departments of Physics and Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
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- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences and
- Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Departments of Physics and Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
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- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, 94025
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- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences and
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- State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Physics, Suranaree University of Technology, Muang, Nakhon Ratchasima 30000, Thailand
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- Materials and Structures Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8550, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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- Laboratory for Atomic and Solid State Physics, Department of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
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- Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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- Quantum Beam Science Directorate, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Tokai, Ibaraki 319-1195, Japan
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- Superconducting Electronics Group, Electronics and Photonics Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Ibaraki 305-8568, Japan; and
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- Superconducting Electronics Group, Electronics and Photonics Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Ibaraki 305-8568, Japan; and
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- Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720
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- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences and
- Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Departments of Physics and Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
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- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences and
- Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Departments of Physics and Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
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