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Magnetic Quantum Oscillations in YBa2Cu3O6.61 and YBa2Cu3O6.69 in Fields of Up to 85 T: Patching the Hole in the Roof of the Superconducting Dome

Source: Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 086403 (2010); doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.086403

Published 25 February 2010

PACS
  • 71.18.+y
    Fermi surface: calculations and measurements; effective mass, -g factor
  • 71.45.-d
    Collective effects (condensed matter electronic structure)
  • 74.72.-h
    Cuprate superconductors
  • YEAR: 2010
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John Singleton,1 Clarina de la Cruz,2,3 R. D. McDonald,1 Shiliang Li,4,2 Moaz Altarawneh,1 Paul Goddard,5 Isabel Franke,5 Dwight Rickel,1 C. H. Mielke,1 Xin Yao,6 and Pengcheng Dai2,3,4
1National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS-E536, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
2Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-1200, USA
3Neutron Scattering Science Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
4Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
5Clarendon Laboratory, Department of Physics, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom OX1 3PU
6Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200030, China

We measure magnetic quantum oscillations in the underdoped cuprates YBa2Cu3O6+x with x=0.61, 0.69, using fields of up to 85 T. The quantum-oscillation frequencies and effective masses obtained suggest that the Fermi energy in the cuprates has a maximum at hole doping p[approximate]0.11–0.12. On either side, the effective mass may diverge, possibly due to phase transitions associated with the T=0 limit of the metal-insulator crossover (low-p side), and the postulated topological transition from small to large Fermi surface close to optimal doping (high p side). ©2010 The American Physical Society
History: Received 12 November 2009; published 25 February 2010
Permalink: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v104/e086403
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