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Title: Quasiparticle mass enhancement approaching optimal doping in a high-Tc superconductor

Journal Article · · Science
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  1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  2. Univ. of Cambridge (United Kingdom). Cavendish Lab.
  3. Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC (Canada). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
  4. Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC (Canada). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy; Canadian Inst. for Advanced Research, Toronto (Canada)

In the quest for superconductors with higher transition temperatures (Tc), one emerging motif is that electronic interactions favorable for superconductivity can be enhanced by fluctuations of a broken-symmetry phase. In recent experiments it is suggested that the existence of the requisite broken-symmetry phase in the high-Tc cuprates, but the impact of such a phase on the ground-state electronic interactions has remained unclear. Here, we used magnetic fields exceeding 90 tesla to access the underlying metallic state of the cuprate YBa2Cu3O6+δ over a wide range of doping, and observed magnetic quantum oscillations that reveal a strong enhancement of the quasiparticle effective mass toward optimal doping. Finally, this mass enhancement results from increasing electronic interactions approaching optimal doping, and suggests a quantum critical point at a hole doping of pcrit ≈ 0.18.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC52-06NA25396
OSTI ID:
1329588
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-15-22206
Journal Information:
Science, Vol. 348, Issue 6232; ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher:
AAASCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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