Local electronic structure near oxygen dopants in BSCCO-2212: a window on the high-Tc pair mechanism?

Details Local electronic structure near oxygen dopants in BSCCO-2212: a window on the high-Tc pair mechanism? Local electronic structure near oxygen dopants in BSCCO-2212: a window on the high-Tc pair mechanism?

2006-01-09

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0601157v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 197002 (2006)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

5 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.197002

The cuprate material BSCCO-2212 is believed to be doped by a combination of cation switching and excess oxygen. The interstitial oxygen dopants are of particular interest because scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) experiments have shown that they are positively correlated with the local value of the superconducting gap, and calculations suggest that the fundamental attraction between electrons is modulated locally. In this work, we use density functional theory to try to ascertain which locations in the crystal are energetically most favorable for the O dopant atoms, and how the surrounding cage of atoms deforms. Our results provide support for the identification of STM resonances at -1eV with dopant interstitial O atoms, and show how the local electronic structure is modified nearby.

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