M. Berben, J. Ayres, C. Duffy, R. D. H. Hinlopen, Y. -T. Hsu, M. Leroux, I. Gilmutdinov, M. Massoudzadegan, D. Vignolles, Y. Huang, T. Kondo, T. Takeuchi, J. R.… 展开作者
M. Berben, J. Ayres, C. Duffy, R. D. H. Hinlopen, Y. -T. Hsu, M. Leroux, I. Gilmutdinov, M. Massoudzadegan, D. Vignolles, Y. Huang, T. Kondo, T. Takeuchi, J. R. Cooper, S. Friedemann, A. Carrington, C. Proust, N. E. Hussey
It has long been recognized that the key to unlocking the mystery of cuprate high-Tc superconductivity lies in understanding the anomalous normal state from which pairs form and condense. While many of its defining properties have been identified, they are often considered either at a singular doping level or as an isolated phenomenon as a function of doping. As a result, their relation to each other and to the pseudogap (PG), strange metal (SM) and non-superconducting (non-SC) regimes that define the cuprate phase diagram has yet to be elucidated. Here, we report a high-field in-plane MR study on several cuprate families spanning all 3 regimes that reveal a complex yet nonetheless systematic evolution of the form of the MR, with each regime possessing its own distinct scaling behavior. In the PG regime, the MR exhibits pure H/T^2 scaling at low fields and H-linearity at the highest field strengths. While the H-linearity persists inside the SM regime, the scaling changes abruptly to H/T. The size of the H-linear slope, meanwhile, is found to be correlated with both the T-linear resistivity coefficient and Tc, strengthening the characterization of the SM regime as a quantum critical phase. We interpret the omnipresence of H-linear MR across both regimes as a signature of highly anisotropic, possibly discontinuous features on the Fermi surface. Finally, within the non-SC, Fermi-liquid regime, we observe a recovery of conventional Kohler scaling. This comprehensive study establishes the distinct nature of the magnetotransport within each regime and identifies power-law scaling of the normal state MR as a defining feature of SC hole-doped cuprates. The incompatibility of such power-law scaling with any known variant of Boltzmann transport theory motivates the quest for an altogether new theoretical framework, one in which the MR is entirely decoupled from elastic impurity scattering.
An understanding of the high-temperature copper oxide (cuprate) superconductors has eluded the physics community for over thirty years, and represents one of the greatest unsolved problems in condensed matter physics. Particularly enigmatic is the normal state from which superconductivity emerges, so much so that this phase has been dubbed a "strange metal." In this article, we will review recent research into this strange metallic state as realized in the electron-doped cuprates with a focus on their transport properties. The electron-doped compounds differ in several ways from their more tho…
Strange metals possess highly unconventional transport characteristics, such as a linear-in-temperature ($T$) resistivity, an inverse Hall angle that varies as $T^2$ and a linear-in-field ($H$) magnetoresistance. Identifying the origin of these collective anomalies has proved profoundly challenging, even in materials such as the hole-doped cuprates that possess a simple band structure. The prevailing dogma is that strange metallicity in the cuprates is tied to a quantum critical point at a doping $p*$ inside the superconducting dome. Here, we study the high-field in-plane magnetoresistance of …
We report magnetoresistance and Hall Effect results for electron-doped films of the high-temperature superconductor La$_{2-x}$Ce$_x$CuO$_4$ (LCCO) for temperatures from 0.7 to 45 K and magnetic fields up to 65 T. For x = 0.12 and 0.13, just below the Fermi surface reconstruction (FSR), the normal state in-plane resistivity exhibits a well-known upturn at low temperature. Our new results show that this resistivity upturn is eliminated at high magnetic field and the resistivity becomes linear-in-temperature from $\sim$ 40 K down to 0.7 K. The magnitude of the linear coefficient scales with Tc an…
Magnetothermopower and particle-hole symmetry in a cuprate strange metal
High Field Magnet Laboratory (HFML-FELIX), Radboud University（荷兰奈梅亨拉德堡德大学强磁场实验室）；Department of Physics and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University（台湾新竹国立清华大学物理系与材料科学与工程学系）；Center for Quantum Science and Technology, National Tsing Hua University（台湾新竹国立清华大学量子科学技术中心）；Institut za fiziku, Bijenička 46, HR-10000, Zagreb, Croatia（克罗地亚萨格勒布物理研究所）；Institute for Molecules and Materials, Radboud University（荷兰奈梅亨拉德堡德大学分子与材料研究所）；Van der Waals-Zeeman Institute, University of Amsterdam（荷兰阿姆斯特丹大学范德瓦尔斯-泽曼研究所）；Wallenberg Initiative Materials Science for Sustainability, Uppsala University（瑞典乌普萨拉大学瓦伦堡可持续材料科学倡议）
Unlocking the mystery of the strange metal state has become the focal point of high T$_{c}$ research, not because of its importance for superconductivity, but because it appears to represent a truly novel phase of matter dubbed `quantum supreme matter'. Detected originally through high magnetic field, transport experiments, signatures of this phase have now been uncovered with a variety of probes. Our high resolution optical data of the low T$_{c}$ cuprate superconductor, Bi$_{2-x}$Pb$_{x}$Sr$_{2-y}$La$_{y}$CuO$_{6+δ}$ allows us to probe this phase over a large energy and temperature window. W…
The charge density fluctuations and the Shrinking Fermi Liquid scenario for strange metallicity in cuprates
CNR-INFM-SMC, and Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma（罗马大学物理系）；Institute for Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, Computational Quantum Materials, Julius-Maximilians-Universität（维尔茨堡大学理论物理与天体物理研究所）；Institut für Physik, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg（科特布斯-森夫滕贝格技术大学物理研究所）
Besides the mechanism responsible for high critical temperature superconductivity, the grand unresolved issue of the cuprates is the occurrence of a strange metallic state above the so-called pseudogap temperature $T^*$. Even though such state has been successfully described within a phenomenological scheme, the so-called Marginal Fermi-Liquid theory, a microscopic explanation is still missing. However, recent resonant X-ray scattering experiments identified a new class of charge density fluctuations characterized by low characteristic energies and short correlation lengths, which are related …
The normal state of optimally doped cuprates is dominated by the "strange metal" phase that shows a linear temperature ($T$) dependence of the resistivity persisting down to the lowest $T$. For underdoped cuprates this behavior is lost below the pseudogap temperature $T^*$, where Charge Density Waves (CDW) together with other intertwined local orders characterize the ground state. Here we show that the $T$-linear resistivity of highly strained, ultrathin and underdoped YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{7-δ}$ films is restored when the CDW amplitude, detected by Resonant Inelastic X-ray scattering, is suppresse…
The linear-in-temperature resistivity is one of the important mysteries in the strange metal state of high-temperature cuprate superconductors. To uncover this anomalous property, the energy-momentum-dependent imaginary part of the self-energy Im ${\rm Σ}(k, ω)$ holds the key information. Here we perform systematic doping, momentum, and temperature-dependent angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy measurements of electron-doped cuprate ${\rm La}_{2-x}{\rm Ce}_x{\rm CuO}_4$ and extract the evolution of the strange metal scattering in momentum space. At low doping levels and low temperatures, …
The last 15 years have witnessed important progresses in our understanding of the mechanism of superconductivity in the high-$T_{c}$ cuprates. There is now strong evidence that the strange metal behavior is induced by the quantum critical fluctuation at the pseudogap end point, where the Fermi surface changes its topology from hole-like to electron-like. However, experiments show that the quantum critical behavior in the high-$T_{c}$ cuprates is qualitatively different from that observed in the heavy Fermion systems and the iron-based superconductors, in both of which the quantum critical beha…
Efforts to understand the microscopic origin of superconductivity in the cuprates are dependent on knowledge of the normal state. The Hall number in the low temperature, high field limit $n_{\rm H}(0)$ has a particular significance because within conventional transport theory it is simply related to the number of charge carriers, and so its evolution with doping gives crucial information about the nature of the charge transport. Here we report a study of the high field Hall coefficient of the single-layer cuprates Tl$_2$Ba$_2$CuO$_{6+δ}$ (Tl2201) and (Pb/La) doped Bi$_2$Sr$_2$CuO$_{6+δ}$ (Bi22…
The cuprate high-temperature superconductors are among the most intensively studied materials, yet essential questions regarding their principal phases and the transitions between them remain unanswered. Generally thought of as doped charge-transfer insulators, these complex lamellar oxides exhibit pseudogap, strange-metal, superconducting and Fermi-liquid behaviour with increasing hole-dopant concentration. Here we propose a simple inhomogeneous Mott-like (de)localization model wherein exactly one hole per copper-oxygen unit is gradually delocalized with increasing doping and temperature. The…
We report measurements of the Seebeck effect in both the $ab$ plane ($S_{\rm a}$) and along the $c$ axis ($S_{\rm c}$) of the cuprate superconductor La$_{1.6-x}$Nd$_{0.4}$Sr$_{x}$CuO$_4$ (Nd-LSCO), performed in magnetic fields large enough to suppress superconductivity down to low temperature. We use the Seebeck coefficient as a probe of the particle-hole asymmetry of the electronic structure across the pseudogap critical doping $p^{\star} = 0.23$. Outside the pseudogap phase, at $p = 0.24 > p^{\star}$, we observe a positive and essentially isotropic Seebeck coefficient as $T \rightarrow 0$. T…
Decoupling momentum and energy relaxation rates in cuprate strange metals via giant THz nonlinearities
Johns Hopkins University（约翰斯·霍普金斯大学）；University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign（伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校）；Brookhaven National Laboratory（布鲁克海文国家实验室）；Université Paris-Saclay（巴黎萨克雷大学）
Correlation between unconventional superconductivity and strange metallicity revealed by operando superfluid density measurements
Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院物理研究所）；Fudan University（复旦大学）；Southern University of Science and Technology（南方科技大学）；Harvard University（哈佛大学）；University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）；Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory（松山湖材料实验室）；Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences（北京量子信息科学研究院）
Starting from a recently proposed comprehensive theory for the high-Tc superconductivity in cuprates, we derive a general analytic expression for the planar resistivity, in the presence of an applied external magnetic field $\textbf{H}$ and explore its consequences in the different phases of these materials. As an initial probe of our result, we show it compares very well with experimental data for the resistivity of LSCO at different values of the applied field. We also apply our result to Bi2201 and show that the magnetoresistivity in the strange metal phase of this material, exhibits the $H…
We present experimental results for the in-plane resistivity of the electron-doped cuprate superconductor $La_{2-x}Ce_xCuO_4$ above its transition temperature $T_c$ as a function of Ce doping x and temperature. For the doping x between 0.11 and 0.17, where $T_c$ varies from 30 K (x=0.11) to 5 K (x=0.17), we find that the resistivity shows an approximate $T^2$ behavior for all values of doping over the measurement range from 100 K to 400 K. The coefficient of the $T^2$ resistivity term decreases with increasing x following the trend in $T_c$. We analyze our data theoretically and posit that n-t…
Emergence of an orbital-selective Mott phase (OSMP) found in multi-band correlated systems leads to a non-perturbative obliteration of the Landau Fermi liquid in favor of a novel metallic state exhibiting anomalous infra-red (branch-cut) continuum features in one- and two-particle responses. We use a combination of $(1)$ dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) using the continuous-time-quantum Monte-Carlo (CTQMC) solver for a two-band Hubbard model and $(2)$ analytic arguments from an effective bosonized description to investigate strange metal features in inelastic neutron scattering studies for c…
Dramatic evolution of properties with minute change in the doping level is a hallmark of the complex chemistry which governs cuprate superconductivity as manifested in the celebrated superconducting domes as well as quantum criticality taking place at precise compositions. The strange metal state, where the resistivity varies linearly with temperature, has emerged as a central feature in the normal state of cuprate superconductors. The ubiquity of this behavior signals an intimate link between the scattering mechanism and superconductivity. However, a clear quantitative picture of the correlat…
An understanding of the normal state in the high-temperature superconducting cuprates is crucial to the ultimate understanding of the long-standing problem of the origin of the superconductivity itself. This so-called strange metal state is thought to be associated with a quantum critical point (QCP) hidden beneath the superconductivity(1,2). In electron-doped cuprates in contrast to hole-doped cuprates it is possible to access the normal state at very low temperatures and low magnetic fields to study this putative QCP and to probe the T~0 K state of these materials(3,4). We report measurement…
Low-temperature T$^{2}$ resistivity in the underdoped pseudogap phase versus T-linear resistivity in the overdoped strange-metal phase of cuprate superconductors
We show that the resistivity in each phase of the High-Tc cuprates is a special case of a general expression derived from the Kubo formula. We obtain, in particular, the T-linear behavior in the strange metal (SM) and upper pseudogap (PG) phases, the pure $T^2$, Fermi liquid (FL) behavior observed in the strongly overdoped regime as well as the $T^{1+δ}$ behavior that interpolates both in the crossover. We calculate the coefficients: a) of $T$ in the linear regime and show that it is proportional to the PG temperature $T^*(x)$; b) of the $T^2$-term in the FL regime, without adjusting any param…
In various "strange" metals, electrons undergo Planckian dissipation, a strong and anomalous scattering that grows linearly with temperature, in contrast to the quadratic temperature dependence expected from the standard theory of metals. In some cuprates and pnictides, a linear dependence of the resistivity on magnetic field has also been considered anomalous - possibly an additional facet of Planckian dissipation. Here we show that the resistivity of the cuprate strange metals Nd-LSCO and LSCO is quantitatively consistent with the standard Boltzmann theory of electron motion in a magnetic fi…
Establishing the presence and the nature of a quantum critical point in their phase diagram is a central enigma of the high-temperature superconducting cuprates. It could explain their pseudogap and strange metal phases, and ultimately their high superconducting temperatures. Yet, while solid evidences exist in several unconventional superconductors of ubiquitous critical fluctuations associated to a quantum critical point, in the cuprates they remain undetected until now. Here using symmetry-resolved electronic Raman scattering in the cuprate Bi$_2$Sr$_2$CaCu$_2$O$_{8+δ}$, we report the obser…
The strange-metal state is a crucial problem in condensed matter physics highlighted by its ubiquity in almost all major correlated systems[1-7]. Its understanding could provide important insight into high-Tc superconductivity[2] and quantum criticality[8]. However, with the Fermi liquid theory failing in strange metals, understanding the highly unconventional behaviors has been a long-standing challenge. Fundamental aspects of strange metals remain elusive, including the nature of their charge carriers[1]. Here, we report the observation of a giant Nernst response in the strange-metal state i…
Quantum critical origin of strange-metals at the end of a pseudogap phase in infinite-layer nickelates
École Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris（巴黎综合理工学院，巴黎理工学院）；Université de Sherbrooke（舍布鲁克大学）；Nanjing University（南京大学）；National High Magnetic Field Laboratory（国家高磁场实验室）
The breakdown of the celebrated Fermi liquid theory in the strange metal phase is the central enigma of correlated quantum matter. Motivated by recent experiments reporting short-lived carriers, along with the ubiquitous observations of modulated excitations in the phase diagram of cuprates, we propose a model for this phase. We introduce bosons emerging from the remnants of a pair density wave as additional current carriers in the strange metal phase. These bosonic excitations are finite momentum Cooper pairs and thus carry twice the electronic charge, and its net spin can either be zero or o…
Critical spin fluctuations across the superconducting dome in La$_{2-x}$Sr$_{x}$CuO$_4$
University of Bristol（布里斯托大学）；Tata Institute of Fundamental Research（塔塔基础研究所）；Flatiron Institute（平顿研究所）；Rutherford Appleton Laboratory（拉瑟福德·阿普尔顿实验室）；Harvard University（哈佛大学）
Singular spin fluctuations in the strange-metal phase of La2-xSrxCuO4
Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Univ. Toulouse, INSA-T（格勒诺布尔阿尔卑斯大学，法国国家科学研究中心，图卢兹大学，国立应用科学学院）；LNCMI-EMFL, UPR3228（强磁场中心欧洲磁力实验室）；Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院物理研究所）；Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics（北京凝聚态物理国家研究中心）；School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学物理科学学院）；Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory（布鲁克海文国家实验室凝聚态物理与材料科学部）
The thermal Hall effect, which arises when heat flows transverse to an applied thermal gradient, has become an important observable in the study of quantum materials. Recent experiments found a large thermal Hall conductivity $κ_{xy}$ in many high-temperature cuprate superconductors, including deep inside the Mott insulator, but the underlying mechanism remains unknown. Here, we uncover a surprising linear temperature dependence for the inverse thermal Hall resistivity, $1/ρ_H=-κ_{xx}^2/κ_{xy}$, in the Mott insulating cuprates $\mathrm{La_2CuO_4}$ and $\mathrm{Sr_2CuO_2Cl_2}$. We also find thi…
