Inelastic tunneling spectroscopic imaging study of electron-lattice interactions in Bi$_{2}$Sr$_{2}$CaCu$_{2}$O$_{8+\delta }$.

ORAL

Abstract

We investigated impact of oxygen isotope effect on d$^{2}$I/dV$^{2}$ spectroscopy on $^{16}$O and $^{18}$O substituted Bi$_{2}$Sr$_{2}$CaCu$_{2}$O$_{8+\delta ,}$respectively, with the same doping level (nearly optimally doping. $^{16}$O$\to ^{18}$O: Tc=89K$\to $88K), using the newly developed inelastic spectroscopic imaging technique (Jinho Lee \textit{et al.}, \textit{Nature} \textbf{422},546 (2006)) . We found that oxygen isotope effect ($^{16}$O$\to ^{18}$O) leads to reduction of mode energy from 52meV to 49meV, while superconducting gap remained unchanged. Oxygen isotope re-substitution shifted mode energy back to the original energy ($^{18}$O$\to ^{16}$O) as well as $T_{c}$ back to 89K, completing the series of isotope effect probed by STM/S. We concluded that renormalization effect seen in dI/dV spectra is caused by strong electron-lattice interaction from a mode near 52meV. We will also discuss about relevance of this lattice vibration mode as a pairing glue in the talk.

*K.F. acknowlegds fellowship support from I2CAM.

Authors

  • Kazuhiro Fujita

    • U. of Tokyo
  • J. Lee

    • Cornell University
    • LASSP, Cornell University
    • Cornell U.
  • K. McElroy

    • U. of Colorado
  • J. Slezak

    • Cornell U.
  • M. Wang

    • LASSP, Physics Department, Cornell University, U.S.A.
    • Cornell University
    • Cornell U.
  • Y. Aiura

    • AIST. Tsukuba
  • H. Bando

    • AIST. Tsukuba
  • M. Ishikado

    • U. of Tokyo
  • T. Masui

    • Osaka U.
  • J. -X. Zhu

    • LANL
  • A. Balatsky

    • CINT, T-11, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545
    • Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • LANL
  • H. Eisaki

    • National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba
    • Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
    • AIST. Tsukuba
  • S. Uchida

    • U. of Tokyo
  • J. C. Davis

    • Cornell University
    • LASSP, Cornell University
    • Cornell U.