Pair breaking versus symmetry breaking: Origin of the Raman modes in superconducting cuprates

Details Pair breaking versus symmetry breaking: Origin of the Raman modes in superconducting cuprates Pair breaking versus symmetry breaking: Origin of the Raman modes in superconducting cuprates

2009-01-22

arxiv.org/abs/0901.3448v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

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We performed Raman experiments on superconducting ${\rm Bi_2 Sr_2 (Ca_{1-x} Y_x) Cu_2 O_{8+\delta}}$ (Bi-2212) and ${\rm YBa_{2} Cu_{3}O_{6+x}}$ (Y-123) single crystals. These results in combination with earlier ones enable us to analyze systematically the spectral features in the doping range $0.07 \le p \le 0.23$. In $B_{2g}$ ($xy$) symmetry we find universal spectra and the maximal gap energy $\Delta_0$ to follow the superconducting transition temperature $T_c$. The $B_{1g}$ ($x^2-y^2$) spectra in Bi-2212 show an anomalous increase of the intensity towards overdoping, indicating that the corresponding energy scale is neither related to the pairing energy nor to the pseudogap, but possibly stems from a symmetry breaking transition at the onset point of superconductivity at $p_{\rm sc2} \simeq 0.27$.

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