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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
Abstract
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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Affiliation(s)
- 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
| | - M. Hashimoto
- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, 94025
| | - Rui-Hua He
- Department of Physics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
| | - Wei-Sheng Lee
- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences and
- Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Departments of Physics and Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
| | - Felix Schmitt
- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences and
- Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Departments of Physics and Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
| | - Donghui Lu
- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, 94025
| | - R. G. Moore
- 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
| | - W. Meevasana
- School of Physics, Suranaree University of Technology, Muang, Nakhon Ratchasima 30000, Thailand
| | - T. Sasagawa
- Materials and Structures Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8550, Japan
| | - S. Uchida
- Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
| | - Kazuhiro Fujita
- Laboratory for Atomic and Solid State Physics, Department of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
| | - S. Ishida
- Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
| | - M. Ishikado
- 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
| | - Zahid Hussain
- Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720
| | - Thomas P. Devereaux
- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences and
- Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Departments of Physics and Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
| | - Zhi-Xun Shen
- 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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