Temperature dependent Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of impurities in Bi2Sr2CuO6+x through the transition temperature

ORAL

Abstract

Scanning Tunneling Microscopy has been used to study detailed electronic spectrum in atomic scale defects in high temperature superconductors. We present Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of impurities in Bi$_{2}$Sr$_{2}$CuO$_{6+x }$(Bi-2201) over a wide range of temperatures. Surprisingly, native impurity resonances, similar to the ones previously observed in Bi$_{2}$Sr$_{2}$CaCu$_{2}$O$_{8+x}$ (Bi-2212), spatially coexist with the superconducting gap at low temperatures and survive almost unchanged through the superconducting transition temperature T$_{c}$. We shall discuss the implications of these findings on the relationship between superconducting gap and pseudogap in these materials.

Authors

  • Kamalesh Chatterjee

    • MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Douglus Wise

    • MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Michael Boyer

    • MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Takeshi Kondo

    • Ames Laboratory and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University
    • Ames Laboratory
    • Ames
  • Tsunehiro Takeuchi

    • Nagoya University
    • Nagoya U.
  • Hiroshi Ikuta

    • Nagoya University
    • Nagoya U.
  • Yayu Wang

    • MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Eric Hudson

    • MIT
    • IBM
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology