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  • Title: Fermi surface reconstruction in high-T(c) superconductors.
    Author: Taillefer L.
    Journal: J Phys Condens Matter; 2009 Apr 22; 21(16):164212. PubMed ID: 21825392.
    Abstract:
    The recent observation of quantum oscillations in underdoped high-T(c) superconductors, combined with their negative Hall coefficient at low temperature, reveals that the Fermi surface of hole-doped cuprates includes a small electron pocket. This strongly suggests that the large hole Fermi surface characteristic of the overdoped regime undergoes a reconstruction caused by the onset of some order which breaks translational symmetry. Here we consider the possibility that this order is 'stripe' order, a form of combined charge/spin modulation observed most clearly in materials like Eu-doped and Nd-doped LSCO (La(2-x)Sr(x)CuO(4)). In these materials, the onset of stripe order coincides with major changes in transport properties, providing strong evidence that stripe order is indeed the cause of Fermi surface reconstruction. We identify the critical doping where this reconstruction occurs and show that the temperature dependence of transport coefficients at that doping is typical of metals at a quantum critical point. We discuss how the pseudogap phase may be a fluctuating precursor of the stripe-ordered phase.
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