"Suppression of Superfluid Density and the Pseudogap State in the Cupra" by Unurbat Erdenemunkh, Brian Koopman et al.
 

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Suppression of Superfluid Density and the Pseudogap State in the Cuprates by Impurities

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Article

Abstract

We use scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) to study magnetic Fe impurities intentionally doped into the high-temperature superconductor Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ. Our spectroscopic measurements reveal that Fe impurities introduce low-lying resonances in the density of states at Ω1≈4 meV and Ω2≈15 meV, allowing us to determine that, despite having a large magnetic moment, potential scattering of quasiparticles by Fe impurities dominates magnetic scattering. In addition, using high-resolution spatial characterizations of the local density of states near and away from Fe impurities, we detail the spatial extent of impurity-affected regions as well as provide a local view of impurity-induced effects on the superconducting and pseudogap states. Our studies of Fe impurities, when combined with a reinterpretation of earlier STM work in the context of a two-gap scenario, allow us to present a unified view of the atomic-scale effects of elemental impurities on the pseudogap and superconducting states in hole-doped cuprates; this may help resolve a previously assumed dichotomy between the effects of magnetic and nonmagnetic impurities in these materials.

Publication Title

Physical Review Letters

Publication Date

12-16-2016

Volume

117

Issue

25

ISSN

0031-9007

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.257003

Keywords

electronic states, high temperature superconductors, magnetic moments, magnetism, scanning tunneling microscopy, superconducting materials

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