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Sep, 2010

Carrier-Concentration Dependence of the Pseudogap Ground State of Superconducting Bi(2)Sr2-xLaxCuO6+delta Revealed by Cu-63,Cu-65-Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in Very High Magnetic Fields

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
  • Shinji Kawasaki
  • ,
  • Chengtian Lin
  • ,
  • Philip L. Kuhns
  • ,
  • Arneil P. Reyes
  • ,
  • Guo-qing Zheng

Volume
105
Number
13
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (scientific journal)
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.137002
Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC

We report the results of the Knight shift by Cu-63,Cu-65-NMR measurements on single-layered copper-oxide Bi2Sr2-xLaxCuO6+delta conducted under very high magnetic fields up to 44 T. The magnetic field suppresses superconductivity completely, and the pseudogap ground state is revealed. The Cu-63-NMR Knight shift shows that there remains a finite density of states at the Fermi level in the zero-temperature limit, which indicates that the pseudogap ground state is a metallic state with a finite volume of Fermi surface. The residual density of states in the pseudogap ground state decreases with decreasing doping (increasing x) but remains quite large even at the vicinity of the magnetically ordered phase of x >= 0.8, which suggests that the density of states plunges to zero upon approaching the Mott insulating phase.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.137002
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000282136900011&DestApp=WOS_CPL
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  • DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.137002
  • ISSN : 0031-9007
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000282136900011

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