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Miller TL, Zhang W, Eisaki H, Lanzara A. Particle-Hole Asymmetry in the Cuprate Pseudogap Measured with Time-Resolved Spectroscopy. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2017; 118:097001. [PMID: 28306293 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.118.097001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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One of the most puzzling features of high-temperature cuprate superconductors is the pseudogap state, which appears above the temperature at which superconductivity is destroyed. There remain fundamental questions regarding its nature and its relation to superconductivity. But to address these questions, we must first determine whether the pseudogap and superconducting states share a common property: particle-hole symmetry. We introduce a new technique to test particle-hole symmetry by using laser pulses to manipulate and measure the chemical potential on picosecond time scales. The results strongly suggest that the asymmetry in the density of states is inverted in the pseudogap state, implying a particle-hole asymmetric gap. Independent of interpretation, these results can test theoretical predictions of the density of states in cuprates.
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- Tristan L Miller
- Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- Electronics and Photonics Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Ibaraki 305-8568, Japan
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- Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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Kloss T, Montiel X, de Carvalho VS, Freire H, Pépin C. Charge orders, magnetism and pairings in the cuprate superconductors. REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS. PHYSICAL SOCIETY (GREAT BRITAIN) 2016; 79:084507. [PMID: 27427401 DOI: 10.1088/0034-4885/79/8/084507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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We review the recent developments in the field of cuprate superconductors with special focus on the recently observed charge order in the underdoped compounds. We introduce new theoretical developments following the study of the antiferromagnetic quantum critical point in two dimensions, in which preemptive orders in both charge and superconducting (SC) sectors emerge, that are in turn related by an SU(2) symmetry. We consider the implications of this proliferation of orders in the underdoped region, and provide a study of the type of fluctuations which characterize the SU(2) symmetry. We identify an intermediate energy scale where the SC fluctuations are dominant and argue that they are unstable towards the formation of a resonant excitonic state at the pseudogap temperature T (*). We discuss the implications of this scenario for a few key experiments.
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- T Kloss
- IPhT, L'Orme des Merisiers, CEA-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Kondo T, Malaeb W, Ishida Y, Sasagawa T, Sakamoto H, Takeuchi T, Tohyama T, Shin S. Point nodes persisting far beyond Tc in Bi2212. Nat Commun 2015; 6:7699. [PMID: 26158431 PMCID: PMC4510699 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8699] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2014] [Accepted: 06/01/2015] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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In contrast to a complex feature of antinodal state, suffering from competing orders, the pairing gap of cuprates is obtained in the nodal region, which therefore holds the key to the superconducting mechanism. One of the biggest question is whether the point nodal state as a hallmark of d-wave pairing collapses at Tc like the BCS-type superconductors, or it instead survives above Tc turning into the preformed pair state. A difficulty in this issue comes from the small magnitude of the nodal gap, which has been preventing experimentalists from solving it. Here we use a laser ARPES capable of ultrahigh-energy resolution, and detect the point nodes surviving far beyond Tc in Bi2212. By tracking the temperature evolution of spectra, we reveal that the superconductivity occurs when the pair-breaking rate is suppressed smaller than the single-particle scattering rate on cooling, which governs the value of Tc in cuprates. The pairing gap of the high-Tc cuprates has been expected to close at the transition temperature, similarly to the case of conventional superconductors. Here the authors perform ARPES measurements on Bi2212, and reveal a point nodal gap formation beyond Tc, characterized in terms of three parameters.
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- Takeshi Kondo
- ISSP, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8581, Japan
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- ISSP, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8581, Japan
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- ISSP, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8581, Japan
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- Materials and Structures Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Kanagawa 226-8503, Japan
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- Department of Crystalline Materials Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8603, Japan
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- Energy Materials Laboratory, Toyota Technological Institute, Nagoya 468-8511, Japan
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- Department of Applied Physics, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo 125-8585, Japan
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- ISSP, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8581, Japan
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de Mello EVL, Sonier JE. Charge segregation model for superconducting correlations in cuprates above T(c). JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2014; 26:492201. [PMID: 25364008 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/26/49/492201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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We present a theoretical framework for understanding recent transverse field muon spin rotation (TF-µSR) experiments on cuprate superconductors in terms of localized regions of phase-coherent pairing correlations above the bulk superconducting transition temperature Tc. The local regions of phase coherence are associated with a tendency toward charge ordering, a phenomenon found recently in hole-doped cuprates. We use the Cahn-Hilliard equation as a means to phenomenologically model the inhomogeneous charge distribution of the electron system observed experimentally. For this system we perform self-consistent superconducting calculations using the Bogoliubov-deGennes method. Within this context we explore two possible scenarios: (i) the magnetic field is diamagnetically screened by the sum of varying shielding currents of isolated small-sized superconducting domains. (ii) These domains become increasingly correlated by Josephson coupling as the temperature is lowered and the main response to the applied magnetic field is from the sum of all varying tunneling currents. The results indicate that these two approaches may be used to simulate the TF-µSR data but case (ii) yields better agreement.
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- E V L de Mello
- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, RJ 24210-340, Brazil
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Greco A, Bejas M. Pseudogap in cuprates driven by D-wave flux-phase order proximity effects: a theoretical analysis from Raman and ARPES experiments. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2014; 26:485701. [PMID: 25380387 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/26/48/485701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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One of the puzzling characteristics of the pseudogap phase of high-Tc cuprates is the nodal-antinodal dichotomy. While the nodal quasiparticles have a Fermi liquid behaviour, the antinodal ones show non-Fermi liquid features and an associated pseudogap. Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and electronic Raman scattering are two valuable tools which have shown universal features which are rather material-independent, and presumably intrinsic to the pseudogap phase. The doping and temperature dependence of the Fermi arcs and the pseudogap observed by photoemission near the antinode correlates with the non-Fermi liquid behaviour observed by Raman for the B(1g) mode. In contrast, and similar to the nodal quasiparticles detected by photoemission, the Raman B(2g) mode shows Fermi liquid features. We show that these two experiments can be analysed, in the context of the t-J model, by self-energy effects in the proximity to a D-wave flux-phase order instability. This approach supports a crossover origin for the pseudogap, and a scenario of two competing phases. The B(2g) mode shows, in an underdoped case, a depletion at intermediate energy which has attracted renewed interest. We study this depletion and discuss its origin and relation with the pseudogap.
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- Andrés Greco
- Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Ingeniería y Agrimensura and Instituto de Física Rosario (UNR-CONICET), Avenida Pellegrini 250, 2000 Rosario, Argentina
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Gor'kov LP, Teitel'baum GB. Two regimes in conductivity and the Hall coefficient of underdoped cuprates in strong magnetic fields. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2014; 26:042202. [PMID: 24389670 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/26/4/042202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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We address recent experiments shedding light on the energy spectrum of under and optimally doped cuprates at temperatures above the superconducting transition. Angle resolved photoemission reveals coherent excitation only near nodal points on parts of the 'bare' Fermi surface known as the Fermi arcs. The question debated in the literature is whether the small normal pocket, seen via quantum oscillations, exists at higher temperatures or forms below a charge order transition in strong magnetic fields. Assuming the former case as a possibility, expressions are derived for the resistivity and the Hall coefficient (in weak and strong magnetic fields) with both types of carriers participating in the transport. There are two regimes. At higher temperatures (at a fixed field) electrons are dragged by the Fermi arcs' holes. The pocket being small, its contribution to conductivity and the Hall coefficient is negligible. At lower temperatures electrons decouple from holes behaving as a Fermi gas in the magnetic field. As the mobility of holes on the arcs decreases in strong fields with a decrease of temperature, below a crossover point the pocket electrons prevail, changing the sign of the Hall coefficient in the low temperature limit. Such behavior finds its confirmation in recent high-field experiments.
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- L P Gor'kov
- NHMFL, Florida State University, 1800 East Paul Dirac Drive, Tallahassee, FL 32310, USA. L D Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics of the RAS, Chernogolovka 142432, Russia
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Atkinson WA, Bazak JD, Andersen BM. Robust nodal d-wave spectrum in simulations of a strongly fluctuating competing order in underdoped cuprate superconductors. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2012; 109:267004. [PMID: 23368606 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.109.267004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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We resolve an existing discrepancy between convincing evidence for competing order in underdoped cuprates and spectroscopic data consistent with a homogeneous d-wave superconductor in the very same compounds. Specifically, we show that fluctuations of the competing order generate strongly inhomogeneous states whose spectra are almost indistinguishable from the pure d-wave superconductor. This is in contrast to the commonly studied case of homogeneously coexisting order, which typically generates a reconstructed Fermi surface with closed Fermi pockets. The signatures of the fluctuating competing order can be found mainly in a splitting of the antinodal band, and, for strong magnetic order, in small induced nodal gaps similar to those found in recent experiments on underdoped La(2-x)Sr(x)CuO4.
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- W A Atkinson
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada K9J 7B8.
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Szczęśniak R. Pairing mechanism for the high-TC superconductivity: symmetries and thermodynamic properties. PLoS One 2012; 7:e31873. [PMID: 22529891 PMCID: PMC3329537 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031873] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2011] [Accepted: 01/13/2012] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The pairing mechanism for the high-Tc superconductors based on the electron-phonon (EPH) and electron-electron-phonon (EEPH) interactions has been presented. On the fold mean-field level, it has been proven, that the obtained s-wave model supplements the predictions based on the BCS van Hove scenario. In particular: (i) For strong EEPH coupling and T < T(C) the energy gap (Δtot) is very weak temperature dependent; up to the critical temperature Δtot extends into the anomalous normal state to the Nernst temperature. (ii) The model explains well the experimental dependence of the ratio R(1) ≡ 2Δ(tot)(0)/k(B)T(C) on doping for the reported superconductors in the terms of the few fundamental parameters. In the presented paper, the properties of the d-wave superconducting state in the two-dimensional system have been also studied. The obtained results, like for s-wave, have shown the energy gap amplitude crossover from the BCS to non-BCS behavior, as the value of the EEPH potential increases. However, for T > T(C) the energy gap amplitude extends into the anomalous normal state to the pseudogap temperature. Finally, it has been presented that the anisotropic model explains the dependence of the ratio R(1) on doping for the considered superconductors.
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- Radosław Szczęśniak
- Institute of Physics, Częstochowa University of Technology, Częstochowa, Poland.
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Energy gaps in Bi(2)Sr(2)CaCu(2)O(8+δ) cuprate superconductors. Sci Rep 2012; 2:248. [PMID: 22355760 PMCID: PMC3272663 DOI: 10.1038/srep00248] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2011] [Accepted: 01/20/2012] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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The relationship between the cuprate pseudogap (Δ(p)) and superconducting gap (Δ(s)) remains an unsolved mystery. Here, we present a temperature- and doping-dependent tunneling study of submicron Bi(2)Sr(2)CaCu(2)O(8+δ) intrinsic Josephson junctions, which provides a clear evidence that Δ(s) closes at a temperature T(c) (0) well above the superconducting transition temperature T(c) but far below the pseudogap opening temperature T*. We show that the superconducting pairing first occurs predominantly on a limited Fermi surface near the node below T(c) (0), accompanied by a Fermi arc due to the lifetime effects of quasiparticles and Cooper pairs. The arc length has a linear temperature dependence, and as temperature decreases below T(c) it reduces to zero while pairing spreads to the antinodal region of the pseudogap leading to a d-wave superconducting gap on the entire Fermi surface at lower temperatures.
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d-Wave Superconductivity and s-Wave Charge Density Waves: Coexistence between Order Parameters of Different Origin and Symmetry. Symmetry (Basel) 2011. [DOI: 10.3390/sym3040699] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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A review of the theory describing the coexistence between d-wave superconductivity and s-wave charge-density-waves (CDWs) is presented. The CDW gapping is identified with pseudogapping observed in high-Tc oxides. According to the cuprate specificity, the analysis is carried out for the two-dimensional geometry of the Fermi surface (FS). Phase diagrams on the σ0 − α plane—here, σ0 is the ratio between the energy gaps in the parent pure CDW and superconducting states, and the quantity 2α is connected with the degree of dielectric (CDW) FS gapping—were obtained for various possible configurations of the order parameters in the momentum space. Relevant tunnel and photoemission experimental data for high-Tc oxides are compared with theoretical predictions. A brief review of the results obtained earlier for the coexistence between s-wave superconductivity and CDWs is also given.
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Hashimoto M, He RH, Testaud JP, Meevasana W, Moore RG, Lu DH, Yoshida Y, Eisaki H, Devereaux TP, Hussain Z, Shen ZX. Reaffirming the d(x2-y2) superconducting gap using the autocorrelation angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy of Bi1.5Pb0.55Sr1.6La0.4CuO(6+δ). PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2011; 106:167003. [PMID: 21599403 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.106.167003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2010] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Knowledge of the gap function is important to understand the pairing mechanism for high-temperature (T(c)) superconductivity. However, Fourier transform scanning tunneling spectroscopy (FT STS) and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) in the cuprates have reported contradictory gap functions, with FT-STS results deviating strongly from a canonical d(x2-y2) form. By applying an "octet model" analysis to autocorrelation ARPES, we reveal that a contradiction occurs because the octet model does not consider the effects of matrix elements and the pseudogap. This reaffirms the canonical d(x2-y2) superconducting gap around the node, which can be directly determined from ARPES. Further, our study suggests that the FT-STS reported fluctuating superconductivity around the node at far above T(c) is not necessary to explain the existence of the quasiparticle interference at low energy.
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- M Hashimoto
- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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Lubashevsky Y, Garg A, Sassa Y, Shi M, Kanigel A. Insensitivity of the superconducting gap to variations in the critical temperature of Zn-substituted Bi2Sr2CaCu2O(8+δ) superconductors. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2011; 106:047002. [PMID: 21405348 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.106.047002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2010] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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The phase diagram of the superconducting high-T(c) cuprates is governed by two energy scales: T*, the temperature below which a gap is opened in the excitation spectrum, and T(c), the superconducting transition temperature. The way these two energy scales are reflected in the low-temperature energy gap is being intensively debated. Using Zn substitution and carefully controlled annealing we prepared a set of samples having the same T* but different T(c)'s, and measured their gap using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES). We show that T(c) is not related to the gap shape or size, but it controls the size of the coherence peak at the gap edge.
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Greco A. Evidence for two competing order parameters in underdoped cuprate superconductors from a model analysis of Fermi-Arc effects. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2009; 103:217001. [PMID: 20366060 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.103.217001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2009] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Preformed pairs above T{c} and the two-gap scenarios are two main proposals for describing the low-doping pseudogap phase of high-T{c} cuprates. Very recent angle-resolved photoemission experiments have shown features which were interpreted as evidence for preformed pairs. Here it is shown that those results can be explained also in the context of the two-gap scenario if self-energy effects are considered. The discussion is based on the d charge-density wave theory or the flux phase of the t-J model.
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- Andrés Greco
- Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Ingeniería y Agrimensura and Instituto de Física Rosario (UNR-CONICET), Av. Pellegrini 250, 2000 Rosario, Argentina
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Wen HH, Mu G, Luo H, Yang H, Shan L, Ren C, Cheng P, Yan J, Fang L. Specific-heat measurement of a residual superconducting state in the normal state of underdoped Bi_{2}Sr_{2-x}La_{x}CuO_{6+delta} cuprate superconductors. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2009; 103:067002. [PMID: 19792597 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.103.067002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2009] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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We have measured the magnetic field and temperature dependence of specific heat on Bi_{2}Sr_{2-x}La_{x}CuO_{6+delta} single crystals in wide doping and temperature regions. The superconductivity related specific-heat coefficient gamma_{sc} and entropy S_{sc} are determined. It is found that gamma_{sc} has a humplike anomaly at T_{c} and behaves as a long tail which persists far into the normal state for the underdoped samples, but for the heavily overdoped samples the anomaly ends sharply just near T_{c}. Interestingly, we found that the entropy associated with superconductivity is roughly conserved when and only when the long tail part in the normal state is taken into account for the underdoped samples, indicating the residual superconductivity above T_{c}.
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- Hai-Hu Wen
- National Laboratory for Superconductivity, Institute of Physics and Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, People's Republic of China
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Pushp A, Parker CV, Pasupathy AN, Gomes KK, Ono S, Wen J, Xu Z, Gu G, Yazdani A. Extending Universal Nodal Excitations Optimizes Superconductivity in Bi
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8+δ. Science 2009; 324:1689-93. [DOI: 10.1126/science.1174338] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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- Aakash Pushp
- Joseph Henry Laboratories and Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
- Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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- Joseph Henry Laboratories and Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
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- Joseph Henry Laboratories and Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
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- Joseph Henry Laboratories and Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
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- Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Komae, Tokyo 201-8511, Japan
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- Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science, Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY 11973, USA
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- Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science, Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY 11973, USA
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- Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science, Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY 11973, USA
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- Joseph Henry Laboratories and Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
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Wilson JA. Elucidation of the origins of transport behaviour and quantum oscillations in high temperature superconducting cuprates. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2009; 21:245702. [PMID: 21693954 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/21/24/245702] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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A detailed exposition is given of recent transport and 'quantum oscillation' results from high temperature superconducting (HTSC) systems covering the full carrier range from overdoped to underdoped material. This now very extensive and high quality data set is here interpreted within the framework developed by the author of local pairs and boson-fermion resonance, arising in the context of negative- U behaviour within an inhomogeneous electronic environment. The strong inhomogeneity comes with the mixed-valence condition of these materials, which when underdoped lie in close proximity to the Mott-Anderson transition. The observed intense scattering is presented as resulting from pair formation and from electron-boson collisions in the resonant crossover circumstance. The high level of scattering carries the systems to incoherence in the pseudogapped state, p<p(c)(= 0.183). In a high magnetic field the striped partition of the inhomogeneous charge distribution becomes much strengthened and regularized. Magnetization and resistance oscillations, of period dictated by the favoured positioning of the fluxon array within the real space environment of the diagonal 2D charge striping array, are demonstrated to be responsible for the recently reported behaviour hitherto widely attributed to the quantum oscillation response of a much more standard Fermi liquid condition. A detailed analysis embracing all the experimental data serves to reveal that in the given conditions of very high field, low temperature, 2D-striped, underdoped, d-wave superconducting, HTSC material the flux quantum becomes doubled to h/e.
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- John A Wilson
- H H Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TL, UK
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Xia XJ, Ng TK. Thermal conductivity, Fermi pockets and superconductivity in underdoped cuprates. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2009; 21:115703. [PMID: 21693926 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/21/11/115703] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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The electronic contribution to thermal conductivity is studied in models of underdoped cuprates where the normal state has a pocketed Fermi surface with circumference ∼x (hole concentration) and the superconducting state is formed by opening a gap in the Fermi pocket. The physical consequences of the Fermi pocket are studied by comparing the thermal conductivity computed in four different models: (1) an ordinary d-wave superconductor with four Dirac Fermi points; (2) a normal metal with a pocketed Fermi surface; (3) a superconductor formed by spinon-holon binding in the t-J model; (4) a phenomenological d-wave Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) superconductor with superconductivity formed by opening a gap on the pocketed Fermi surface. Our results suggest that thermal conductivity provides useful information to distinguish between different scenarios of the normal-to-superconducting transition in underdoped cuprates.
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- Xiang-Jun Xia
- Department of Physics, Huazhong Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079, People's Republic of China. Department of Physics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, People's Republic of China
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Niestemski LR, Wang Z. Valence bond glass theory of electronic disorder and the pseudogap state of high-temperature cuprate superconductors. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2009; 102:107001. [PMID: 19392145 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.102.107001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2008] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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We show that the low-energy fluctuations of the valence bond due to the superexchange are pinned by the electronic disorder from off-stoichiometric dopants, leading to a valence bond glass (VBG) pseudogap phase in underdoped high-T_{c} cuprates. The antinodal Fermi surface sections are gapped out, giving rise to a normal state Fermi arc whose length shrinks with underdoping. Below T_{c}, the superexchange interaction induces a d-wave superconducting gap that coexists with the VBG pseudogap. The evolution of the local and momentum-space spectroscopy with doping and temperature captures the salient properties of the pseudogap phenomena and the electronic disorder.
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Alvarez G, Dagotto E. Fermi arcs in the superconducting clustered state for underdoped cuprate superconductors. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2008; 101:177001. [PMID: 18999774 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.101.177001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2008] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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The one-particle spectral function of a state formed by superconducting (SC) clusters is studied via Monte Carlo techniques. The clusters have similar SC amplitudes but randomly distributed phases. This state is stabilized by competition with the antiferromagnetism expected to be present in the cuprates and after quenched disorder is introduced. A Fermi surface composed of disconnected segments, i.e., Fermi arcs, is observed between the critical temperature T_(c) and the cluster formation temperature scale T*.
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- G Alvarez
- Computer Science & Mathematics Division and Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
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Wilson JA. Evolution with hole doping of the electronic excitation spectrum in the cuprate superconductors. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2008; 20:385210. [PMID: 21693828 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/20/38/385210] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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The recent scanning tunnelling results of Alldredge and co-workers on Bi-2212 and of Hanaguri and co-workers on Na-CCOC (Ca(2-x)Na(x)CuO(2)Cl(2)) are examined from the perspective of the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS)/Bose-Einstein condensation boson-fermion resonant crossover model for the mixed-valence high temperature superconductor (HTSC) cuprates. The model specifies the two energy scales controlling the development of HTSC behaviour and the dichotomy often now alluded to between nodal and antinodal phenomena in the HTSC cuprates. An indication is extracted from the data as to how the choice of the particular HTSC system sees these two basic energy scales ([Formula: see text], the local pair binding energy, and Δ(sc), the nodal BCS-like gap parameter) evolve with doping and change in the degree of metallization of the structurally and electronically perturbed mixed-valent environment.
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- John A Wilson
- H H Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TL, UK
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Kohsaka Y, Taylor C, Wahl P, Schmidt A, Lee J, Fujita K, Alldredge JW, McElroy K, Lee J, Eisaki H, Uchida S, Lee DH, Davis JC. How Cooper pairs vanish approaching the Mott insulator in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+delta. Nature 2008; 454:1072-8. [PMID: 18756248 DOI: 10.1038/nature07243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 295] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2008] [Accepted: 07/03/2008] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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The antiferromagnetic ground state of copper oxide Mott insulators is achieved by localizing an electron at each copper atom in real space (r-space). Removing a small fraction of these electrons (hole doping) transforms this system into a superconducting fluid of delocalized Cooper pairs in momentum space (k-space). During this transformation, two distinctive classes of electronic excitations appear. At high energies, the mysterious 'pseudogap' excitations are found, whereas, at lower energies, Bogoliubov quasi-particles-the excitations resulting from the breaking of Cooper pairs-should exist. To explore this transformation, and to identify the two excitation types, we have imaged the electronic structure of Bi(2)Sr(2)CaCu(2)O(8+delta) in r-space and k-space simultaneously. We find that although the low-energy excitations are indeed Bogoliubov quasi-particles, they occupy only a restricted region of k-space that shrinks rapidly with diminishing hole density. Concomitantly, spectral weight is transferred to higher energy r-space states that lack the characteristics of excitations from delocalized Cooper pairs. Instead, these states break translational and rotational symmetries locally at the atomic scale in an energy-independent way. We demonstrate that these unusual r-space excitations are, in fact, the pseudogap states. Thus, as the Mott insulating state is approached by decreasing the hole density, the delocalized Cooper pairs vanish from k-space, to be replaced by locally translational- and rotational-symmetry-breaking pseudogap states in r-space.
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- Y Kohsaka
- LASSP, Department of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
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Guyard W, Sacuto A, Cazayous M, Gallais Y, Le Tacon M, Colson D, Forget A. Temperature dependence of the gap size near the brillouin-zone nodes of HgBa2CuO4+delta superconductors. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2008; 101:097003. [PMID: 18851641 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.101.097003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2008] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Although more than 20 years have passed, the identification of the superconducting order parameter in cuprates is still under debate. Here, we show that the gap size near the nodes is a good candidate for the order parameter: it scales with the critical temperature Tc over a wide doping range and displays a significant temperature dependence below Tc in both the underdoped and the overdoped regimes. In contrast, the gap size at the antinodes does not scale with Tc in the underdoped regime and appears to be controlled by the pseudogap which persists below Tc.
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- W Guyard
- Laboratoire Matériaux et Phénomnes Quantiques (UMR 7162 CNRS), Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7, Bat. Condorcet, 10 rue Alice Domon et Léonie Duquet, 75205 Paris CEDEX 13, France
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Shi M, Chang J, Pailhés S, Norman MR, Campuzano JC, Månsson M, Claesson T, Tjernberg O, Bendounan A, Patthey L, Momono N, Oda M, Ido M, Mudry C, Mesot J. Coherent d-wave superconducting gap in underdoped La2-xSrxCuO4 by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2008; 101:047002. [PMID: 18764357 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.101.047002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2007] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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We present angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy data on moderately underdoped La1.855Sr0.145CuO4 at temperatures below and above the superconducting transition temperature. Unlike previous studies of this material, we observe sharp spectral peaks along the entire underlying Fermi surface in the superconducting state. These peaks trace out an energy gap that follows a simple d-wave form, with a maximum superconducting gap of 14 meV. Our results are consistent with a single gap picture for the cuprates. Furthermore our data on the even more underdoped sample La1.895Sr0.105CuO4 also show sharp spectral peaks, even at the antinode, with a maximum superconducting gap of 26 meV.
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- M Shi
- Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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