Atomic-Scale Sources and Mechanism of Nanoscale Electronic Disorder in Bi 2 Sr 2 CaCu 2 O 8+δ
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DOI:
10.1126/science.1113095
Publication Date:
2005-08-12T02:24:18Z
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ABSTRACT
The randomness of dopant atom distributions in cuprate high–critical temperature superconductors has long been suspected to cause nanoscale electronic disorder. In the superconductor Bi
2
Sr
2
CaCu
2
O
8+δ
, we identified populations of atomic-scale impurity states whose spatial densities follow closely those of the oxygen dopant atoms. We found that the impurity-state locations are strongly correlated with all manifestations of the nanoscale electronic disorder. This disorder occurs via an unanticipated mechanism exhibiting high-energy spectral weight shifts, with associated strong superconducting coherence peak suppression but very weak scattering of low-energy quasi-particles.
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