Electronic and phononic Raman scattering in detwinned YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{6.95}$ and Y$_{0.85}$Ca$_{0.15}$Ba$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{6.95}$: s-wave admixture to the $d_{x^2-y^2}$-wave order parameter

Details Electronic and phononic Raman scattering in detwinned YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{6.95}$ and Y$_{0.85}$Ca$_{0.15}$Ba$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{6.95}$: s-wave admixture to the $d_{x^2-y^2}$-wave order parameter Electronic and phononic Raman scattering in detwinned YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{6.95}$ and Y$_{0.85}$Ca$_{0.15}$Ba$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{6.95}$: s-wave admixture to the $d_{x^2-y^2}$-wave order parameter

2009-07-27

arxiv.org/abs/0907.4587v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

accepted in Phys. Rev. B, 11 pages

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Inelastic light (Raman) scattering has been used to study electronic excitations and phonon anomalies in detwinned, slightly overdoped YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{6.95}$ and moderately overdoped Y$_{0.85}$Ca$_{0.15}$Ba$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{6.95}$ single crystals. In both samples modifications of the electronic pair-breaking peaks when interchanging the a- and b-axis were observed. The lineshapes of several phonon modes involving plane and apical oxygen vibrations exhibit pronounced anisotropies with respect to the incident and scattered light field configurations. Based on a theoretical model that takes both electronic and phononic contributions to the Raman spectra into account, we attribute the anisotropy of the superconductivity-induced changes in the phonon lineshapes to a small s-wave admixture to the $d_{x^2-y^2}$ pair wave-function. Our theory allows us to disentangle the electronic Raman signal from the phononic part and to identify corresponding interference terms. We argue that the Raman spectra are consistent with an s-wave admixture with an upper limit of 20 percent.

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