Physics – Condensed Matter – Superconductivity
Scientific paper
2002-12-18
Physics
Condensed Matter
Superconductivity
4 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. Letters
Scientific paper
Recent scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) studies on Bi$_2$Sr$_2$CaCu$_2$O$_{8+\delta}$ (Bi-2212) revealed the presence of severe inhomogeneity with length scale $L_0 \approx \xi_0$, the coherence length. Other studies have been interpreted in terms of mesoscale or nanoscale phase segregation. Here we analyze heat capacity and NMR data on Bi-2212 and (Y,Ca)Ba$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{7-\delta}$ and find no evidence for phase segregation or gross inhomogeneity. For Bi-2212 the coherence scale $L_0$ increases with doping from 5 to 17$\xi_0$ and the hole density inhomogeneity decreases from 0.028 to 0.005 holes/Cu. We conclude that STM measurements considerably overstate the inhomogeneity in bulk Bi-2212.
Liang W. Y.
Loram J. W.
Tallon Jeffery L.
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