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SLAC Publication: SLAC-PUB-15256
SLAC Release Date: October 2, 2012
Phase Competition in Trisected Superconducting Dome
Vishik, Inna.
Angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) has been used to distinguish between quantum phases in the cuprates, particularly superconductivity and the pseudogap, based on their distinct spectroscopic phenomenology--temperature, doping, and momentum dependence. We present laser-ARPES experiments showing evidence for three distinct phases comprising the superconducting ground state in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+delta (Bi-2212), accompanied by abrupt changes at p 0.076 and p 0.19 in the phenomenology of ... Show Full Abstract
Angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) has been used to distinguish between quantum phases in the cuprates, particularly superconductivity and the pseudogap, based on their distinct spectroscopic phenomenology--temperature, doping, and momentum dependence. We present laser-ARPES experiments showing evidence for three distinct phases comprising the superconducting ground state in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+delta (Bi-2212), accompanied by abrupt changes at p 0.076 and p 0.19 in the phenomenology of the superconducting gap near the bond-diagonal (nodal) direction. The latter likely marks the quantum critical point of the pseudogap, while the former may indicate a distinct competing phase at low doping. Temperature dependence studies of energy gaps provide further support for this characterization, and additionally present evidence that the pseudogap is not static below Tc. Show Partial Abstract
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