Melting the Superconducting State in the Electron Doped Cuprate Pr$_{1.85}% $Ce$_{0.15}$CuO$_{4-��}$ with Intense near-infrared and Terahertz Pulses

Autor: Beck, M., Klammer, M., Rousseau, I., Obergfell, M., Leiderer, P., Helm, M., Kabanov, V. V., Diamant, I., Rabinowicz, A., Dagan, Y., Demsar, J.
Rok vydání: 2016
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DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1603.04155
Popis: We studied the superconducting (SC) state depletion process in an electron doped cuprate Pr$_{1.85}$Ce$_{0.15}$CuO$_{4-��}$ by pumping with near-infrared (NIR) and narrow-band THz pulses. When pumping with THz pulses tuned just above the SC gap, we find the absorbed energy density required to deplete superconductivity, $A_{dep}$, matches the thermodynamic condensation energy. Contrary, by NIR pumping $A_{dep}$ is an order of magnitude higher, despite the fact that the SC gap is much smaller than the energy of relevant bosonic excitations. The result implies that only a small subset of bosons contribute to pairing.
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