Skip to main content
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Ubiquitous suppression of the nodal coherent spectral weight in Bi-based cuprates

Journal Article · · Physical Review B
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [1];  [4];  [1];  [5];  [5];  [6];  [6];  [6];  [7];  [7];  [7];  [8];  [8];  [9];  [9];  [9];  [1] more »;  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1] « less
  1. Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC (Canada). Quantum Matter Inst.; Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC (Canada)
  2. Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC (Canada). Quantum Matter Inst.; Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC (Canada); Inst. National de la Recherche Scientifique, Varennes, QC (Canada). Centre Energie Materiaux Telecommunications
  3. Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC (Canada). Quantum Matter Inst.; Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC (Canada); Paul Scherrer Inst. (PSI), Villigen (Switzerland). SwissFEL
  4. Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC (Canada). Quantum Matter Inst.; Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC (Canada); Max Planck Inst. for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden (Germany)
  5. Canadian Light Sources, Inc., Saskatoon, SK (Canada)
  6. Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste (Italy)
  7. Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC (Canada). Quantum Matter Inst.
  8. National Inst. of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba (Japan)
  9. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

High-temperature superconducting cuprates exhibit an intriguing phenomenology for the low-energy elementary excitations. In particular, an unconventional temperature dependence of the coherent spectral weight (CSW) has been observed in the superconducting phase by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), both at the antinode where the d-wave paring gap is maximum, as well as along the gapless nodal direction. In this work, we combine equilibrium and time-resolved ARPES to track the temperature-dependent meltdown of the nodal CSW in Bi-based cuprates with unprecedented sensitivity. We find the nodal suppression of CSW upon increasing temperature to be ubiquitous across single- and bi-layer Bi cuprates, and uncorrelated to superconducting and pseudogap onset temperatures. We quantitatively model both the lineshape of the nodal spectral features and the anomalous suppression of CSW within the Fermi-liquid framework, establishing the key role played by the normal state electrodynamics in the description of nodal quasiparticles in superconducting cuprates.

Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0012704
OSTI ID:
1785113
Report Number(s):
BNL--221536-2021-JAAM
Journal Information:
Physical Review B, Journal Name: Physical Review B Journal Issue: 15 Vol. 103; ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (52)

Novel Electronic Structure of Cuprate Superconductors Revealed by the Anomalous Spectral Lineshape in ARPES Experiments journal September 1999
Crystal growth and superconductivity of heavily La-doped Bi-2201 single crystals journal November 1998
On the coherent quasiparticle weight in high- T c cuprates journal September 2017
Destruction of the Fermi surface in underdoped high-Tc superconductors journal March 1998
Testing Fermi-liquid models journal November 1989
Evidence for ubiquitous strong electron–phonon coupling in high-temperature superconductors journal August 2001
Universal nodal Fermi velocity journal May 2003
Emergence of preformed Cooper pairs from the doped Mott insulating state in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ journal November 2008
From quantum matter to high-temperature superconductivity in copper oxides journal February 2015
Anisotropic breakdown of Fermi liquid quasiparticle excitations in overdoped La2−xSrxCuO4 journal October 2013
Ultrafast quenching of electron–boson interaction and superconducting gap in a cuprate superconductor journal September 2014
Loss of nodal quasiparticle integrity in underdoped YBa2Cu3O6+x journal October 2010
Nodal quasiparticle meltdown in ultrahigh-resolution pump–probe angle-resolved photoemission journal July 2011
The origin and non-quasiparticle nature of Fermi arcs in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ journal July 2012
Anisotropic scattering and anomalous normal-state transport in a high-temperature superconductor journal November 2006
Emergence of pseudogap from short-range spin-correlations in electron-doped cuprates journal January 2020
Collapse of superconductivity in cuprates via ultrafast quenching of phase coherence journal April 2018
Effects, determination, and correction of count rate nonlinearity in multi-channel analog electron detectors journal April 2014
Cavity-enhanced high harmonic generation for extreme ultraviolet time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy journal August 2019
What angle-resolved photoemission experiments tell about the microscopic theory for high-temperature superconductors journal May 2000
Electronic phase diagram of high-temperature copper oxide superconductors journal May 2011
Phase competition in trisected superconducting dome journal October 2012
Spectroscopic evidence for Fermi liquid-like energy and temperature dependence of the relaxation rate in the pseudogap phase of the cuprates journal March 2013
Universal sheet resistance and revised phase diagram of the cuprate high-temperature superconductors journal July 2013
Fermi liquid behavior of the in-plane resistivity in the pseudogap state of YBa 2 Cu 4 O 8 journal November 2016
Ultrafast optical spectroscopy of strongly correlated materials and high-temperature superconductors: a non-equilibrium approach journal March 2016
Charge ordering in superconducting copper oxides journal June 2020
Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy study of the superconducting gap anisotropy in Bi 2 Sr 2 Ca Cu 2 O 8 + x journal October 1996
Momentum anisotropy of the scattering rate in cuprate superconductors journal January 2005
Bare electron dispersion from experiment: Self-consistent self-energy analysis of photoemission data journal June 2005
Nodal quasiparticle lifetimes in cuprate superconductors journal December 2005
Fine details of the nodal electronic excitations in Bi 2 Sr 2 Ca Cu 2 O 8 + δ journal May 2006
Extracting the spectral function of the cuprates by a full two-dimensional analysis: Angle-resolved photoemission spectra of Bi 2 Sr 2 Cu O 6 journal March 2008
Time- and momentum-resolved gap dynamics in Bi 2 Sr 2 CaCu 2 O 8 + δ journal March 2014
Isotopic Fingerprint of Electron-Phonon Coupling in High- T c Cuprates journal October 2008
Carrier-Concentration Dependence of the Pseudogap Ground State of Superconducting Bi 2 Sr 2 − x La x CuO 6 + δ Revealed by Cu 63 , 65 -Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in Very High Magnetic Fields journal September 2010
Structural Origin of Apparent Fermi Surface Pockets in Angle-Resolved Photoemission of Bi 2 Sr 2 − x La x CuO 6 + δ journal March 2011
Evolution from a Nodeless Gap to d x 2 − y 2 -Wave in Underdoped La 2 − x Sr x CuO 4 journal January 2013
Phenomenology of the normal state of Cu-O high-temperature superconductors journal October 1989
Topology of the Pseudogap and Shadow Bands in Bi 2 Sr 2 CaCu 2 O 8 + δ at Optimum Doping journal November 1997
Bilayer Splitting in the Electronic Structure of Heavily Overdoped Bi 2 Sr 2 CaCu 2 O 8 + δ journal June 2001
Doping and Temperature Dependence of the Mass Enhancement Observed in the Cuprate Bi 2 Sr 2 CaCu 2 O 8 + δ journal October 2001
Coherent Quasiparticle Weight and Its Connection to High- T c Superconductivity from Angle-Resolved Photoemission journal November 2001
BCS-Like Bogoliubov Quasiparticles in High- T c Superconductors Observed by Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy journal May 2003
Laser Based Angle-Resolved Photoemission, the Sudden Approximation, and Quasiparticle-Like Spectral Peaks in Bi 2 Sr 2 CaCu 2 O 8 + δ journal January 2006
Ultrafast Gap Dynamics and Electronic Interactions in a Photoexcited Cuprate Superconductor journal October 2017
Angle-resolved photoemission studies of the cuprate superconductors journal April 2003
Dynamics of correlation-frozen antinodal quasiparticles in superconducting cuprates journal February 2018
Tracking Cooper Pairs in a Cuprate Superconductor by Ultrafast Angle-Resolved Photoemission journal May 2012
Signature of Superfluid Density in the Single-Particle Excitation Spectrum of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+delta journal July 2000
Direct determination of mode-projected electron-phonon coupling in the time domain journal December 2019
Resonant X-Ray Scattering Studies of Charge Order in Cuprates journal March 2016

Similar Records

ARPES Studies of Cuprate Fermiology: Superconductivity, Pseudogap and Quasiparticle Dynamics
Journal Article · Thu Jun 23 00:00:00 EDT 2011 · Submitted to New Journal of Physics · OSTI ID:1017205

Nodal Quasiparticle Meltdown in Ultra-High Resolution Pump-Probe Angle-Resolved Photoemission
Journal Article · Fri Jun 03 00:00:00 EDT 2011 · Nature Physics · OSTI ID:1051533

Ubiquitous coexisting electron-mode couplings in high-temperature cuprate superconductors
Journal Article · Wed Oct 18 00:00:00 EDT 2023 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · OSTI ID:2284062