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Unveiling phase diagram of the lightly doped high-T(c) cuprate superconductors with disorder removed
The currently established electronic phase diagram of cuprates is based on a study of single- and double-layered compounds. These CuO(2) planes, however, are directly contacted with dopant layers, thus inevitably disordered with an inhomogeneous electronic state. Here, we solve this issue by investi...
Autores principales: | , , , , , , , , , , , , , |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group UK
2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10349131/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37452014 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39457-7 |
Sumario: | The currently established electronic phase diagram of cuprates is based on a study of single- and double-layered compounds. These CuO(2) planes, however, are directly contacted with dopant layers, thus inevitably disordered with an inhomogeneous electronic state. Here, we solve this issue by investigating a 6-layered Ba(2)Ca(5)Cu(6)O(12)(F,O)(2) with inner CuO(2) layers, which are clean with the extremely low disorder, by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) and quantum oscillation measurements. We find a tiny Fermi pocket with a doping level less than 1% to exhibit well-defined quasiparticle peaks which surprisingly lack the polaronic feature. This provides the first evidence that the slightest amount of carriers is enough to turn a Mott insulating state into a metallic state with long-lived quasiparticles. By tuning hole carriers, we also find an unexpected phase transition from the superconducting to metallic states at 4%. Our results are distinct from the nodal liquid state with polaronic features proposed as an anomaly of the heavily underdoped cuprates. |
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