Persistence of vortexlike phase fluctuations in underdoped to heavily overdoped Bi-2201 cuprates

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Main Authors: Terzic, J., Pokharel, Bal K., Li, Z. Z., Senzier, P., Raffy, H., Ono, S., Popović, Dragana
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author Terzic, J.
Pokharel, Bal K.
Li, Z. Z.
Senzier, P.
Raffy, H.
Ono, S.
Popović, Dragana
author_facet Terzic, J.
Pokharel, Bal K.
Li, Z. Z.
Senzier, P.
Raffy, H.
Ono, S.
Popović, Dragana
contents The mechanism that controls the superconducting (SC) transition temperature $T_{\mathrm{c}}^{0}$ as a function of doping is one of the central questions in cuprate high-temperature superconductors. While it is generally accepted that $T_{\mathrm{c}}^{0}$ in underdoped cuprates is not determined by the scale of pairing but by the onset of global phase coherence, the role of phase fluctuations in the overdoped region has been controversial. Here, our transport measurements in perpendicular magnetic fields ($H$) on underdoped Bi-2201 reveal immeasurably small Hall response for $T>T_{\mathrm{c}}(H)$ as a signature of SC phase with vortexlike phase fluctuations. We find that the extent of such a regime in $T$ and $H$ is suppressed near optimal doping but becomes strongly enhanced in heavily overdoped Bi-2201. Our results thus show that vortexlike phase fluctuations play an important role in the field-tuned SC transition in the heavily overdoped region, in contrast to conventional mean-field Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer description. The unexpected nonmonotonic dependence of phase fluctuations on doping provides a new perspective on the SC transition in cuprates.
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spellingShingle Persistence of vortexlike phase fluctuations in underdoped to heavily overdoped Bi-2201 cuprates
Terzic, J.
Pokharel, Bal K.
Li, Z. Z.
Senzier, P.
Raffy, H.
Ono, S.
Popović, Dragana
Superconductivity
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Strongly Correlated Electrons
The mechanism that controls the superconducting (SC) transition temperature $T_{\mathrm{c}}^{0}$ as a function of doping is one of the central questions in cuprate high-temperature superconductors. While it is generally accepted that $T_{\mathrm{c}}^{0}$ in underdoped cuprates is not determined by the scale of pairing but by the onset of global phase coherence, the role of phase fluctuations in the overdoped region has been controversial. Here, our transport measurements in perpendicular magnetic fields ($H$) on underdoped Bi-2201 reveal immeasurably small Hall response for $T>T_{\mathrm{c}}(H)$ as a signature of SC phase with vortexlike phase fluctuations. We find that the extent of such a regime in $T$ and $H$ is suppressed near optimal doping but becomes strongly enhanced in heavily overdoped Bi-2201. Our results thus show that vortexlike phase fluctuations play an important role in the field-tuned SC transition in the heavily overdoped region, in contrast to conventional mean-field Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer description. The unexpected nonmonotonic dependence of phase fluctuations on doping provides a new perspective on the SC transition in cuprates.
title Persistence of vortexlike phase fluctuations in underdoped to heavily overdoped Bi-2201 cuprates
topic Superconductivity
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Strongly Correlated Electrons
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.06603