Abstract Details 155

Direct Spectroscopic Evidence for Phase Competition between the Pseudogap and Superconductivity in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+d
Abstract ID 155
Presenter Makoto Hashimoto
Presentation Type Poster
Full Author List E. A. Nowadnick, R.-H. He, I. M. Vishik, B. Moritz, Y. He, K. Tanaka, R. G. Moore, D. Lu, T. P. Devereaux, Z.-X. Shen
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SLAC National Accelerator Lab

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In the high-temperature (Tc) cuprate superconductors, increasing evidence suggests that the pseudogap phase, existing below the pseudogap temperature T*, is characterized by some broken electronic symmetries distinct from those of superconductivity. Particularly, recent scattering experiments have suggested that charge ordering competes with superconductivity. However, no direct link of the interplay between the two phases has been identified from the important low-energy excitations. In this poster, we present an antagonistic singularity at Tc in the spectral weight of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+d as compelling evidence for phase competition, which persists up to a high hole concentration p ~ 0.22. Comparison with theoretical calculations confirms that the singularity is a signature of competition between the order parameters for the pseudogap and superconductivity. The observation of the spectroscopic singularity at finite temperatures over a wide doping range provides new insights into the nature of the competitive interplay between the two intertwined orders and the complex phase diagram near the pseudogap critical point.

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