Superconductivity. Quasiparticle mass enhancement approaching optimal doping in a high-T(c) superconductor

Autor: Ramshaw, BJ, Sebastian, SE, McDonald, RD, Day, James, Tan, BS, Zhu, Z, Betts, JB, Liang, Ruixing, Bonn, DA, Hardy, WN, Harrison, N
Přispěvatelé: Sebastian, Suchitra [0000-0002-1386-8138], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2015
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Popis: In the quest for superconductors with higher transition temperatures (T(c)), one emerging motif is that electronic interactions favorable for superconductivity can be enhanced by fluctuations of a broken-symmetry phase. Recent experiments have suggested the existence of the requisite broken-symmetry phase in the high-T(c) cuprates, but the impact of such a phase on the ground-state electronic interactions has remained unclear. We used magnetic fields exceeding 90 tesla to access the underlying metallic state of the cuprate YBa2Cu3O(6+δ) over a wide range of doping, and observed magnetic quantum oscillations that reveal a strong enhancement of the quasiparticle effective mass toward optimal doping. This mass enhancement results from increasing electronic interactions approaching optimal doping, and suggests a quantum critical point at a hole doping of p(crit) ≈ 0.18.
Databáze: OpenAIRE