Point contact spectroscopy of Pr$_{2-x}$Ce$_x$CuO$_4$ in high magnetic fields

Details Point contact spectroscopy of Pr$_{2-x}$Ce$_x$CuO$_4$ in high magnetic fields Point contact spectroscopy of Pr$_{2-x}$Ce$_x$CuO$_4$ in high magnetic fields

2007-12-10

arxiv.org/abs/0712.1614v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

5 pages revtex, 5 postscript figures included, submitted to PRB

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We have studied the density of states of the normal state of the electron-doped superconductor Pr$_{2-x}$Ce$_x$CuO$_4$ at low temperatures and in magnetic fields up to 31 Tesla using point contact spectroscopy on single crystals. Our data clearly reveal an anomalous gap in the normal state density of states. This normal state gap survives even in the highest applied field of 31 T. Our results cast doubt over whether this gap found in electron-doped cuprates is the analog of the pseudogap in hole-doped cuprates. We have suggested an alternate origin of the normal state gap, which involves the effect of disorder and electron correlations at the surface of cuprates.

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