Observation of a d-wave nodal liquid in highly underdoped Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_{8+δ}

Details Observation of a d-wave nodal liquid in highly underdoped Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_{8+δ} Observation of a d-wave nodal liquid in highly underdoped Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_{8+δ}

2009-10-09

arxiv.org/abs/0910.1648v1

Nature Physics vol 6, 99 (2010)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

16 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

We use angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy to probe the electronic excitations of the non-superconducting state that exists between the antiferromagnetic Mott insulator at zero doping and the superconducting state at larger dopings in Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_{8+\delta}. We find that this state is a nodal liquid whose excitation gap becomes zero only at points in momentum space. Despite exhibiting a resistivity characteristic of an insulator and the absence of coherent quasiparticle peaks, this material has the same gap structure as the d-wave superconductor. We observe a smooth evolution of the spectrum across the insulator-to-superconductor transition, which suggests that high temperature superconductivity emerges when quantum phase coherence is established in a non-superconducting nodal liquid.

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