We investigated the effect of disorder on the spectral properties of the high temperature superconductor Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x. We find that small defect densities, in the low 10-3 range, already suppress the characteristic spectral signature of the superconducting state, while new excitations appear within the gap. We conclude that, due to defect-induced pair breaking, superconducting pairs and normal carriers coexist below Tc. At higher levels of disorder the normal state is also strongly affected, and the quasiparticle features progressively smeared out.
Spectroscopic signatures of defect-induced pair breaking in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x
I Vobornik;
1999
Abstract
We investigated the effect of disorder on the spectral properties of the high temperature superconductor Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x. We find that small defect densities, in the low 10-3 range, already suppress the characteristic spectral signature of the superconducting state, while new excitations appear within the gap. We conclude that, due to defect-induced pair breaking, superconducting pairs and normal carriers coexist below Tc. At higher levels of disorder the normal state is also strongly affected, and the quasiparticle features progressively smeared out.File in questo prodotto:
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