Visualizing Two Gaps in the High Temperature Superconductor Bi-2201

ORAL

Abstract

The relationship between the superconducting and pseudogap states in the cuprates has been a subject of much interest as well as debate in the HTS community. At the forefront of this debate is whether the pseudogap exists below Tc, and if it does, in what capacity. We present scanning tunneling microscopy measurements which provide evidence for two distinct but simultaneously coexisting gaps in the density of states of Bi2Sr2CuO6+x (Bi-2201) below Tc; one identified as the superconducting gap and the other, the pseudogap. In addition, we discuss our preliminary doping dependence measurements showing that the small (superconducting) gap scales with Tc while the larger (pseudogap) gap scales with T* indicating a consistency with their identification.

Authors

  • Michael Boyer

    • MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Douglus Wise

    • MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Kamalesh Chatterjee

    • MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Ming Yi

    • Stanford U.
  • 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.
  • Eric Hudson

    • MIT
    • IBM
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology