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Signatures of Enhanced Superconducting Phase Coherence in Optimally Doped Bi2Sr2Y0.08Ca0.92Cu2O8+δ Driven by Midinfrared Pulse Excitations

F. Giusti, A. Marciniak, F. Randi, G. Sparapassi, F. Boschini, H. Eisaki, M. Greven, A. Damascelli, A. Avella, D. Fausti

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.067002 · Physical Review Letters

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Abstract

Optimally doped cuprate are characterized by the presence of superconducting fluctuations in a relatively large temperature region above the critical transition temperature. We reveal here that the effect of thermal disorder, which decreases the condensate phase coherence at equilibrium, can be dynamically contrasted by photoexcitation with ultrashort midinfrared pulses. In particular, our findings reveal that light pulses with photon energy comparable to the amplitude of the superconducting gap and polarized in plane along the copper-copper direction can dynamically enhance the optical response associated with the onset of superconductivity. We propose that this effect can be rationalized by an effective d-wave BCS model, which reveals that midinfrared pulses result in a transient increase of the phase coherence.

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Bi2Sr2Y0.08Ca0.92Cu2O8+δ

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