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Identification of two critical charge carrier doping values in high-temperature Y0.8Ca0.2Ba2Cu3Ox and Sm2−xCexCuO4−y cuprate superconductors

B. J. Taylor, R. E. Baumbach, D. J. Scanderbeg, M. B. Maple

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.81.174511 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

Despite over two decades of intense scrutiny, much controversy surrounds many of the most prominent characteristic phenomena found in the high-Tc cuprate-based superconductors. These include the pseudogap, the presence or absence of charge/spin ordering at 1/8 doping, the evolution of the Fermi surface with charge doping, and the physics determining the magnetic field-temperature phase boundary between the electrically dissipationless and dissipative mixed states, Hg(T). From an analysis of the evolution of Hg(T) of thin-film samples of Y0.8Ca0.2Ba2Cu3Ox and Sm2−xCexCuO4−y with oxygen and Ce doping, respectively, we observe that the proximity to the doping state pc1=1/8 and to the putative quantum-critical point of the pseudogap pc2≈0.195 both have a quantifiable impact on the shape of Hg(T).

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FormulaReported Tc (K)Pressure (GPa)Type
Y0.8Ca0.2Ba2Cu3Ox

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—Pressure not reportedzero_resistance
Sm2-xCexCuO4-y

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—Pressure not reportedzero_resistance
La2-xSrxCuO4

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—Pressure not reportedunknown

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