Physics – Condensed Matter – Superconductivity
Scientific paper
2011-05-19
Nature Physics 7, 719-724 (2011)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Superconductivity
30 pages, 12 figures, supplementary information included
Scientific paper
10.1038/NPHYS2006
High-temperature (high-Tc) superconductivity in the copper oxides arises from electron or hole doping of their antiferromagnetic (AF) insulating parent compounds. The evolution of the AF phase with doping and its spatial coexistence with superconductivity are governed by the nature of charge and spin correlations and provide clues to the mechanism of high-Tc superconductivity. Here we use a combined neutron scattering and scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS) to study the Tc evolution of electron-doped superconducting Pr0.88LaCe0.12CuO4-delta obtained through the oxygen annealing process. We find that spin excitations detected by neutron scattering have two distinct modes that evolve with Tc in a remarkably similar fashion to the electron tunneling modes in STS. These results demonstrate that antiferromagnetism and superconductivity compete locally and coexist spatially on nanometer length scales, and the dominant electron-boson coupling at low energies originates from the electron-spin excitations.
Dai Pengcheng
Hiess A.
Kang Heui-Jeong
Kunwar Shankar
Li Shiliang
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