Pseudogap, Superconducting Energy Scale, and Fermi Arcs in Underdoped Cuprate Superconductors

Abstract

Through the measurements of magnetic field dependence of specific heat in $L{a}_{2-x}S{r}_{x}Cu{O}_4$ in zero temperature limit, we determined the nodal slope $v_{\Delta }$ of the quasiparticle gap. It is found that $v_{\Delta }$ has a very similar doping dependence of the pseudogap temperature $T^{\ast }$ or value ${\Delta }_p$. Meanwhile the virtual maximum gap at ($\pi ,0$) derived from $v_{\Delta }$ is found to follow the simple relation ${\Delta }_q=0.46k_B{T}^{\ast }$ upon changing the doping concentration. This strongly suggests a close relationship between the pseudogap and superconductivity. It is further found that the superconducting transition temperature is determined by both the residual density of states of the pseudogap phase and the nodal gap slope in the zero temperature limit, namely, $T_c\approx \beta v_{\Delta }{\gamma }_n(0)$, where ${\gamma }_n(0)$ is the extracted zero temperature value of the normal state specific heat coefficient which is proportional to the size of the residual Fermi arc $k_{arc}$. This manifests that the superconductivity may be formed by forming a new gap on the Fermi arcs near nodes below $T_c$. These observations mimic the key predictions of the SU(2) slave boson theory based on the general resonating-valence-bond (RVB) picture.

6 pages, 6 figures, to be published in Phys. Rev. B

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