The ground state of the pseudogap in cuprate supercondustors
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
Research Area
Group (Lab)
J.C. Seamus Davis Group