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The ground state of the pseudogap in cuprate supercondustors

Cornell Affiliated Author(s)

Author

T. Valla
A.V. Fedorov
J. Lee
J.C. Davis
G.D. Gu

Abstract

We present studies of the electronic structure of La2-xBa xCuO4, a system where the superconductivity is strongly suppressed as static spin and charge orders or "stripes" develop near the doping level of x = 1/8. Using angle-resolved photoemission and scanning tunneling microscopy, we detect an energy gap at the Fermi surface with magnitude consistent with d-wave symmetry and with linear density of states, vanishing only at four nodal points, even when superconductivity disappears at x = 1/8. Thus, the nonsuperconducting, striped state at x = 1/8 is consistent with a phase-incoherent d-wave superconductor whose Cooper pairs form spin-charge-ordered structures instead of becoming superconducting.

Date Published

Journal

Science

Volume

314

Issue

5807

Number of Pages

1914-1916,

URL

https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-33845947511&doi=10.1126%2fscience.1134742&partnerID=40&md5=a3712496fb3b678e1f1f69b8b78d4e40

DOI

10.1126/science.1134742

Group (Lab)

J.C. Seamus Davis Group

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