Quantum critical scaling at the edge of Fermi liquid stability in a cuprate superconductor

Details Quantum critical scaling at the edge of Fermi liquid stability in a cuprate superconductor Quantum critical scaling at the edge of Fermi liquid stability in a cuprate superconductor

2011-12-16

arxiv.org/abs/1112.3950v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

16 pages, 3 figures + supplementary material

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In the high temperature cuprate superconductors, the pervasiveness of anomalous electronic transport properties suggests that violation of conventional Fermi liquid behavior is closely tied to superconductivity. In other classes of unconventional superconductors, atypical transport is well correlated with proximity to a quantum critical point, but the relative importance of quantum criticality in the cuprates remains uncertain. Here we identify quantum critical scaling in the electron-doped cuprate material La2-xCexCuO4 with a line of quantum critical points that surrounds the superconducting phase as a function of magnetic field and charge doping. This zero-temperature phase boundary, which delineates a metallic Fermi liquid regime from an extended non-Fermi liquid ground state, closely follows the upper critical field of the overdoped superconducting phase and gives rise to an expanse of distinct non Fermi liquid behavior at finite temperatures. Together with signatures of two distinct flavors of quantum fluctuations, this suggests that quantum criticality plays a significant role in shaping the anomalous properties of the cuprate phase diagram.

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