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Superfluid Density in a Highly Underdoped YBa2Cu3O6+y Superconductor

D. M. Broun, W. A. Huttema, P. J. Turner, S. Özcan, B. Morgan, Ruixing Liang, W. N. Hardy, D. A. Bonn

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.237003 · Physical Review Letters

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Abstract

The superfluid density ρs(T)≡1/λ2(T) has been measured at 2.64 GHz in highly underdoped YBa2Cu3O6+y, at 37 dopings with Tc between 3 and 17 K. Within limits set by the transition width ΔTc≈0.4 K, ρs(T) shows no evidence of critical fluctuations as T→Tc, with a mean-field-like transition and no indication of vortex unbinding. Instead, we propose that ρs displays the behavior expected for a quantum phase transition in the (3+1)-dimensional XY universality class, with ρs0∝(p−pc), Tc∝(p−pc)1/2, and ρs(T)∝(Tc−T)1 as T→Tc.

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FormulaReported Tc (K)Pressure (GPa)Type
YBa2Cu3O6+y

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YBa2Cu3O6+y

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173 GPaunknown

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