Small fermi surface pockets in underdoped high temperature superconductors:: Observation of Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations in YBa2Cu4O8

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作者
Bangura, A. F. [1 ]
Fletcher, J. D. [1 ]
Carrington, A. [1 ]
Levallois, J. [2 ]
Nardone, M. [2 ]
Vignolle, B. [2 ]
Heard, P. J. [1 ]
Doiron-Leyraud, N. [3 ]
LeBoeuf, D. [3 ]
Taillefer, L. [3 ]
Adachi, S. [4 ]
Proust, C. [2 ]
Hussey, N. E. [1 ]
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[1] Univ Bristol, HH Wills Phys Lab, Bristol BS8 1TL, Avon, England
[2] UMR CNRS UPS INSA, Lab Natl Champs Magnet Pulses, F-5147 Toulouse, France
[3] Univ Sherbrooke, Dept Phys & RQMP, Sherbrooke, PQ J1K 2R1, Canada
[4] Int Superconduct Technol Ctr, Superconduct Res Lab, Tokyo 135, Japan
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英国工程与自然科学研究理事会;
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.047004
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O4 [物理学];
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摘要
We report the observation of Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations in the underdoped cuprate superconductor YBa2Cu4O8 (Y124). For fields aligned along the c axis, the frequency of the oscillations is 660 +/- 30 T, which corresponds to similar to 2.4% of the total area of the first Brillouin zone. The effective mass of the quasiparticles on this orbit is measured to be 2.7 +/- 0.3 times the free electron mass. Both the frequency and mass are comparable to those recently observed for ortho-II YBa2Cu3O6.5 (Y123-II). We show that although small Fermi surface pockets may be expected from band-structure calculations in Y123-II, no such pockets are predicted for Y124. Our results therefore imply that these small pockets are a generic feature of the copper oxide plane in underdoped cuprates.
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