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  • Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference
  • OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1989),
  • paper FEE2

Raman spectra of high temperature superconductors

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Abstract

In the old high temperature superconductors, such as Nb3Sn, Raman measurements have shown that some phonons are strongly renormalized by electrons and that in addition one can observe scattering from gap excitations, as characterized by a peak at a frequency of 2Δ/h, where Δ is the gap parameter. We present and compare the results of Raman scattering from phonons and superconducting gap excitations in the high Tc compounds YBa2Cu307−δ.s and Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+Δ. In the normal state, both materials exhibit strong electronic interband scattering which manifests itself as a broad background continuum baying both A1g and B1g symmetry components. At low temperature there occurs a redistribution of this electronic scattering with the formation of a broad pronounced peak. This may indicate the formation of a superconducting gap in these compounds. The two symmetries exhibit a distinctly different redistribution, however, implying strong anisotropy. At temperatures well below Tc, both compounds exhibit residual low energy scattering, a feature suggestive of the coexistence of normal electrons and superconducting quasiparticles.

© 1989 Optical Society of America

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