Peculiarities in the pseudogap behavior in optimally doped YBa2Cu3O7-δ single crystals under pressure up to 1GPa

Abstract

The influence of the hydrostatic pressure P up to 0.95 GPa on the excess conductivity and the pseudogap Δ*(T) in optimally doped YBCO single crystals (T_c = 91.1K at ambient pressure) is investigated by electrical resistivity measurements. A pronounced enhancement of the pseudogap under pressure of dlnΔ*/dP= 0.32, which is only a factor of 1.12 smaller than in slightly doped single crystals, is revealed for the first time. This implies a somewhat more moderate increase of the coupling strength in optimally doped cuprates with increasing pressure. Simultaneously, the ratio 2Δ*(T_c)/k_BT_c=5 at P=0 GPa, which is typical for high-temperature superconductors with strong coupling, increases by 16% with increasing pressure. At the same time, the pressure effect on T_c is minor: dT_c/dP=+0.73 K/GPa, whereas dlnρ/dP=-17% 1/GPa is comparable with that in lightly doped YBCO single crystals. This suggests that the mechanisms of the pressure effect on ρ(T) and T_c are noticeably different. Independently of pressure, near T_c, the excess conductivity is well described by the Aslamazov-Larkin (3D-AL) and 2D Hikami-Larkin fluctuation theories, exhibiting a 3D-2D crossover with increasing temperature. However, the temperature interval T_c<T<T_{01}, in which excess conductivity obeys the classical fluctuation theories, is exceptionally narrow (~1.16 K). Nevertheless, a peculiarity at the temperature T_{01}, up to which the wave function phase stiffness in the superconductor is maintained, is clearly observed in the dependence Δ*(T). Below T_{01} a fast growth of Δ*(T) is revealed for the first time. It can be associated with a sudden increase of the superfluid density, n_s, that is the density of fluctuating Cooper pairs (short-range phase correlations) forming in the sample when T approaches T_c.

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