Anomalous Doping Evolution of Superconductivity and Quasiparticle Interference in Bi_{2}Sr_{2}Ca_{2}Cu_{3}O_{10+δ} Trilayer Cuprates.

Phys Rev Lett

State Key Laboratory of Low Dimensional Quantum Physics, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, People's Republic of China.

Published: December 2020


Category Ranking

98%

Total Visits

921

Avg Visit Duration

2 minutes

Citations

20

Article Abstract

We use scanning tunneling microscopy to investigate Bi_{2}Sr_{2}Ca_{2}Cu_{3}O_{10+δ} trilayer cuprates from the optimally doped to overdoped regime. We find that the two distinct superconducting gaps from the inner and outer CuO_{2} planes both decrease rapidly with doping, in sharp contrast to the nearly constant T_{C}. Spectroscopic imaging reveals the absence of quasiparticle interference in the antinodal region of overdoped samples, showing an opposite trend to that in single- and double-layer compounds. We propose that the existence of two types of inequivalent CuO_{2} planes and the intricate interaction between them are responsible for these anomalies in trilayer cuprates.

Download full-text PDF

Source
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.237005DOI Listing

Publication Analysis

Top Keywords

trilayer cuprates
12
quasiparticle interference
8
bi_{2}sr_{2}ca_{2}cu_{3}o_{10+δ} trilayer
8
cuo_{2} planes
8
anomalous doping
4
doping evolution
4
evolution superconductivity
4
superconductivity quasiparticle
4
interference bi_{2}sr_{2}ca_{2}cu_{3}o_{10+δ}
4
cuprates scanning
4

Similar Publications

We report the first observation of a momentum-resolved superconducting gap in the Hg-based trilayer cuprate, which holds the highest record of superconducting transition temperature (T_{c}) at ambient pressure. By angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy utilizing a microfocused beam, clear quasiparticle dispersions originating from the inner and outer CuO_{2} planes (IP and OP, respectively) were separately identified. The magnitude of the superconducting gap for the IP was comparable to that of the Bi-based trilayer cuprate with a lower T_{c}.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

The robustness of the macroscopic quantum nature of a superconductor can be characterized by the superfluid stiffness, ρ, a quantity that describes the energy required to vary the phase of the macroscopic quantum wavefunction. In unconventional superconductors, such as cuprates, the low-temperature behaviour of ρ markedly differs from that of conventional superconductors owing to quasiparticle excitations from gapless points (nodes) in momentum space. Intensive research on the recently discovered magic-angle twisted graphene family has revealed, in addition to superconducting states, strongly correlated electronic states associated with spontaneously broken symmetries, inviting the study of ρ to uncover the potentially unconventional nature of its superconductivity.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Superconductivity in pressurized trilayer LaNiO single crystals.

Nature

July 2024

State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics and Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

The pursuit of discovering new high-temperature superconductors that diverge from the copper-based model has profound implications for explaining mechanisms behind superconductivity and may also enable new applications. Here our investigation shows that the application of pressure effectively suppresses the spin-charge order in trilayer nickelate LaNiO single crystals, leading to the emergence of superconductivity with a maximum critical temperature (T) of around 30 K at 69.0 GPa.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Electron Glass Phase with Resilient Zhang-Rice Singlets in LiCu_{3}O_{3}.

Phys Rev Lett

March 2024

Institute of Physics, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.

LiCu_{3}O_{3} is an antiferromagnetic mixed valence cuprate where trilayers of edge-sharing Cu(II)O (3d^{9}) are sandwiched in between planes of Cu(I) (3d^{10}) ions, with Li stochastically substituting Cu(II). Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) and density functional theory reveal two insulating electronic subsystems that are segregated in spite of sharing common oxygen atoms: a Cu d_{z^{2}}/O p_{z} derived valence band (VB) dispersing on the Cu(I) plane, and a Cu 3d_{x^{2}-y^{2}}/O 2p_{x,y} derived Zhang-Rice singlet (ZRS) band dispersing on the Cu(II)O planes. First-principle analysis shows the Li substitution to stabilize the insulating ground state, but only if antiferromagnetic correlations are present.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Atomic-Layer Engineering of LaSrCuO-LaSrZnO Heterostructures.

Nanomaterials (Basel)

July 2023

Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA.

The fabrication of trilayer superconductor-insulator-superconductor (SIS) Josephson junctions with high-temperature superconductor (HTS) electrodes requires atomically perfect interfaces. Therefore, despite great interest and efforts, this remained a challenge for over three decades. Here, we report the discovery of a new family of metastable materials, LaSrZnO (LSZO), synthesized by atomic-layer-by-layer molecular beam epitaxy (ALL-MBE).

View Article and Find Full Text PDF