We show that an electronic phase separation (EPS) transition described by the an appropriate theory yields regions of low free energy forming grains of low and high charge densities. These local differences in the potential energy are studied numerically and used here for the first time as the origin of an attractive interaction that gives rise to local pair formation. The resistivity transition $T_c$ occurs due to Josephson coupling among these superconducting regions or grains. Using this approach within the Bogoliubov-deGennes calculations we derive the Gaussian shape of $T_c$ against the entire doping level $p$. We find that every pairing gap develops locally at a temperature $T_p$, following the relation $2Δ/k_BT_p\approx8.0$ in close agreement recent measurements.}
Coexistence of the superconducting energy gap and pseudogap above and below the transition temperature of superconducting cuprates
我们表示的超导间隙，$Δ(T)$，在$s$和d波对称的热力学函数。应用到Bi $_2$ Sr $_2$ CaCu $_2$ O $_{8+δ}$和Y $_{0.8}$ Ca $_{0.2}$ Ba $_2$ Cu $_3$ O $_{7-δ}$，我们发现，对于所有的掺杂$Δ(T)$持续存在，作为一个部分的差距，高以上$T_c$由于强的超导涨落。因此，一般来说，在$T_c$上方存在两个能隙，超导能隙和赝能隙，有效地调和了关于赝能隙物理的两种高度极化的观点。
We investigated the material parameters of several single-layer cuprates, including those with fluorinated buffer layers, with the aim of identifying possible high-temperature superconductors. To evaluate the material parameters, we use the Wannierization techniques and the constrained random phase approximation. The obtained single-band Hubbard models are studied using the fluctuation-exchange approximation. Comparison among several cuprates reveals unknown high-$T_{\text{c}}$ superconductors. In, Ga, Al, and Cd compounds in particular show the potential to exhibit higher-$T_{\text{c}}$ super…
1/8 Doping Anomalies and Oxygen Vacancies in Underdoped Superconducting Cuprates
讨论了几种铜氧化物超导体的热导率（$κ$）随温度和掺杂的变化。在YBa $_2$ Cu $_3$ O $_{6+x}$和Hg铜酸盐中观察到的1/8掺杂附近的正常状态$κ$和$κ$在$T_c$的斜率变化的抑制值，分别归因于局部晶格畸变和超导冷凝物的抑制。这两种现象都被认为是由局部平面孔的小区域引起的，可能是相分离的表现。结果表明，$κ$的相行为反映了条纹动力学和氧空位团簇对1/8掺杂异常条纹的钉扎。
To decipher the mechanism of high temperature superconductivity, it is important to know how the superconducting pairing emerges from the unusual normal states of cuprate superconductors, including pseudogap, anomalous Fermi liquid and strange metal (SM). A long-standing issue under debate is how the superconducting pairing is formed and condensed in the SM phase because the superconducting transition temperature is the highest in this phase. Here, we report the first experimental observation of a pressure-induced crossover from two- to three-dimensional superconducting states in the optimally…
We report the dynamics of the cuprate superconductor La$_{2-x}$Sr$_{x}$CuO$_4$ ($x = 0.14$) after intense photoexcitation utilizing near-infrared (800 nm) optical pump-terahertz probe spectroscopy. In the superconducting state at 5 K, we observed a redshift of the Josephson plasma resonance that sustains for hundreds of picoseconds after the photoexcitation, indicating the destruction of the $c$-axis superconducting coherence. We show that the metastable spectral features can be described by the photoinduced surface heating of the sample. We also demonstrate that the conventional analysis used…
One of the key issues in unraveling the mystery of high Tc superconductivity in the cuprates is to understand the normal state outside the superconducting dome. Here we perform scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy measurements on a heavily overdoped, non-superconducting (Bi,Pb)2Sr2CuO6+x cuprate. Spectroscopic imaging reveals dispersive quasiparticle interferences and the Fourier transforms uncover the evolution of momentum space topology. More interestingly, we observe nanoscale patches of static charge order with sqrt(2)*sqrt(2) periodicity. Both the dispersive quasiparticle interf…
Irrespective of the class they belong to, all the hole doped high-Tc cuprate superconductors show an anti-correlation between the superconducting transition temperature and the characteristic pseudogap energy in the underdoped region. The doping dependent pseudogap in the quasiparticle spectral density is believed to remove low-energy electronic states and thereby reduce the superconducting condensate. Impurities within the CuO2 plane, on the other hand, break Cooper pairs in the unitarity limit and diminish superfluid density. Both pseudogap in pure cuprates and impurity scattering in disorde…
To elucidate the superconductor to metal transition at the end of superconducting dome, the overdoped regime has stepped onto the center stage of cuprate research recently. Here, we use scanning tunneling microscopy to investigate the atomic-scale electronic structure of overdoped trilayer Bi-2223 and bilayer Bi-2212 cuprates. At low energies the spectroscopic maps are well described by dispersive quasiparticle interference patterns. However, as the bias increases to the superconducting coherence peak energy, a virtually non-dispersive pattern with sqrt(2)*sqrt(2) periodicity emerges. Remarkab…
We investigate the nonequilibrium pair density wave order parameter in a simple microscopic model with the ground state $d-$ wave spatially uniform superconductivity. After pushing the system out of equilibrium by a short-time induced order parameter, the system can exhibit robust free nondecaying oscillations of nonuniform superconducting order. In the weak nonequilibrium regime, the frequency of these oscillations is about $2Δ/\hbar$ and the amplitude can be explained qualitatively by features of equilibrium free energy. In case when the system was taken far from equilibrium, it transits to …
In this work zero-temperature phase diagrams of cuprates with Ba$_2$CuO$_3$-type CuO chain structure is investigated. The projective symmetry group analysis is employed in the strong coupling limit, and renormalization group with bosonization analysis is employed in the weak coupling limit. We find that in both of these two limits, large areas of the phase diagrams are filled with nodeless $s$-wave superconducting phases (with weak $d$-wave components), instead of pure $d$-wave phase mostly found in cuprates. This implies that nodeless $s$-wave phase is the dominant superconducting phase in cu…
The formation of Cooper pairs, a bound state of two electrons of opposite spin and momenta by exchange of a phonon [1], is a defining feature of conventional superconductivity. In the cuprate high temperature superconductors, even though it has been established that the superconducting state also consists of Cooper pairs, the pairing mechanism remains intensely debated. Here we investigate superconducting pairing in the Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ(Bi2212) cuprate by employing spectral functions obtained directly from angle-resolved photoemission (ARPES) experiments as input to the Bethe-Salpeter gap equat…
Experimental observation of a first-order phase transition below the superconducting transition temperature in the multilayer cuprate superconductor HgBa$_2$Ca$_4$Cu$_5$O$_y$
在多层铜氧化物超导体HgBa $_2$ Ca $_4$ Cu $_5$ O $_y$（Hg-1245）中发现了一级相变，其超导转变温度为108 K.我们观察到在41 K附近的滞后比热跃变。我们的结论是，Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer对有一个剩余的熵，由于在一个单位细胞的Hg-1245的五个CuO $_2$平面之间的相位差的波动，这种波动冻结低于一阶相变温度。
Evidence for a superconducting origin of prominent features of the in-plane infrared response of underdoped cuprates and implications of their persistence above $T_{\mathrm{c}}$
