ARPES study on four layered superconductor compound Ba2Ca3Cu4O8(O,F)2 (F0234)
ORAL
Abstract
An interesting phenomenon found in several families of cuprate superconductors is that with the increase of the number of CuO$_{2}$ layers (that are believed to be responsible for the superconducting phenomenon) within a unit cell of the crystal, the T$_{c}$ increase first with the layer number n when n$<$=3, then decrease when n$>$3 and reach the maximum at n=3. To understand this, we use the Angular Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy (ARPES) to study the four layered cuprate superconductor F0234 and compare the results with results from compounds with less layers. We found that the electronic band structure of the four layered system exhibits clear difference from the previously studied cuprate superconductors with less layers. These results provide new insights on the nature of cuprate physics.
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