Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 149–152 (1998)Pseudogap Precursor of the Superconducting Gap in Under- and Overdoped Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δReceived 7 July 1997; published in the issue dated 5 January 1998 We present tunneling spectroscopy of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ single crystals as a function of oxygen doping and temperature. The doping dependence amounts essentially to an energy scaling of the tunneling spectra, with a quasiparticle gap that is reduced with increasing oxygen concentration. This superconducting gap is temperature independent up to the superconducting transition where the superconducting spectra merge continuously into another gaplike feature at the Fermi level. This pseudogap is found to be present both in underdoped and overdoped samples, and it scales with the superconducting gap. © 1998 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.149
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.149
PACS:
74.50.+r, 74.25.Dw, 74.25.Jb, 74.72.Hs
See AlsoComment: J. L. Tallon and G. V. Williams, Comment on “Pseudogap Precursor of the Superconducting Gap in Under- and Overdoped Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3725 (1999). Reply: Ch. Renner, B. Revaz, J.-Y. Genoud, K. Kadowaki, and Ø. Fischer, Renner et al. Reply:, Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3726 (1999). |
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