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Inverse correlation between quasiparticle mass and T c in a cuprate high-T c superconductor.


ABSTRACT: Close to a zero-temperature transition between ordered and disordered electronic phases, quantum fluctuations can lead to a strong enhancement of electron mass and to the emergence of competing phases such as superconductivity. A correlation between the existence of such a quantum phase transition and superconductivity is quite well established in some heavy fermion and iron-based superconductors, and there have been suggestions that high-temperature superconductivity in copper-oxide materials (cuprates) may also be driven by the same mechanism. Close to optimal doping, where the superconducting transition temperature T c is maximal in cuprates, two different phases are known to compete with superconductivity: a poorly understood pseudogap phase and a charge-ordered phase. Recent experiments have shown a strong increase in quasiparticle mass m* in the cuprate YBa2Cu3O7-? as optimal doping is approached, suggesting that quantum fluctuations of the charge-ordered phase may be responsible for the high-T c superconductivity. We have tested the robustness of this correlation between m* and T c by performing quantum oscillation studies on the stoichiometric compound YBa2Cu4O8 under hydrostatic pressure. In contrast to the results for YBa2Cu3O7-?, we find that in YBa2Cu4O8, the mass decreases as T c increases under pressure. This inverse correlation between m* and T c suggests that quantum fluctuations of the charge order enhance m* but do not enhance T c.

SUBMITTER: Putzke C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4803492 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Inverse correlation between quasiparticle mass and T c in a cuprate high-T c superconductor.

Putzke Carsten C   Malone Liam L   Badoux Sven S   Vignolle Baptiste B   Vignolles David D   Tabis Wojciech W   Walmsley Philip P   Bird Matthew M   Hussey Nigel E NE   Proust Cyril C   Carrington Antony A  

Science advances 20160318 3


Close to a zero-temperature transition between ordered and disordered electronic phases, quantum fluctuations can lead to a strong enhancement of electron mass and to the emergence of competing phases such as superconductivity. A correlation between the existence of such a quantum phase transition and superconductivity is quite well established in some heavy fermion and iron-based superconductors, and there have been suggestions that high-temperature superconductivity in copper-oxide materials (  ...[more]

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