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Pseudogap phase of cuprate superconductors confined by Fermi surface topology.


ABSTRACT: The properties of cuprate high-temperature superconductors are largely shaped by competing phases whose nature is often a mystery. Chiefly among them is the pseudogap phase, which sets in at a doping p* that is material-dependent. What determines p* is currently an open question. Here we show that the pseudogap cannot open on an electron-like Fermi surface, and can only exist below the doping p FS at which the large Fermi surface goes from hole-like to electron-like, so that p*???p FS. We derive this result from high-magnetic-field transport measurements in La1.6-x Nd0.4Sr x CuO4 under pressure, which reveal a large and unexpected shift of p* with pressure, driven by a corresponding shift in p FS. This necessary condition for pseudogap formation, imposed by details of the Fermi surface, is a strong constraint for theories of the pseudogap phase. Our finding that p* can be tuned with a modest pressure opens a new route for experimental studies of the pseudogap.

SUBMITTER: Doiron-Leyraud N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5725553 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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The properties of cuprate high-temperature superconductors are largely shaped by competing phases whose nature is often a mystery. Chiefly among them is the pseudogap phase, which sets in at a doping p* that is material-dependent. What determines p* is currently an open question. Here we show that the pseudogap cannot open on an electron-like Fermi surface, and can only exist below the doping p <sub>FS</sub> at which the large Fermi surface goes from hole-like to electron-like, so that p* ≤ p <s  ...[more]

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