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Optical melting of the transverse Josephson plasmon: A comparison between bilayer and trilayer cuprates

W. Hu, D. Nicoletti, A. V. Boris, B. Keimer, A. Cavalleri

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.95.104508 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

We report on an investigation of the redistribution of interlayer coherence in the trilayer cuprate Bi2Sr2Ca2Cu3O10. The experiment is performed under the same apical-oxygen phonon excitation discussed in the past for the bilayer cuprate YBa2Cu3O6.5. In Bi2Sr2Ca2Cu3O10, we observe a similar spectral weight loss at the transverse plasma mode resonance as that seen in YBa2Cu3O6.5. However, this feature is not accompanied by the light-enhanced interlayer coherence that was found in YBa2Cu3O6+x, for which the transverse plasma mode is observed at equilibrium even in the normal state. These new observations offer an experimental perspective in the context of the physics of light-enhanced interlayer coupling in various cuprates.

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FormulaReported Tc (K)Pressure (GPa)Type
Bi2Sr2Ca2Cu3O10

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99Pressure not reportedmidpoint
YBa2Cu3O6.5

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YBa2Cu3O6.6

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61Pressure not reportedunknown
La1.675Eu0.2Sr0.125CuO4

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La1.84Sr0.16CuO4

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K3C60

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