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标题：Metal-insulator quantum critical point beneath the high Tc superconducting dome
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作者：Suchitra E. Sebastian ; N. Harrison ; M. M. Altarawneh 等
期刊名称：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN：0027-8424
电子版ISSN：1091-6490
出版年度：2010
卷号：107
期号：14
页码：6175-6179
DOI：10.1073/pnas.0913711107
语种：English
出版社：The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要：An enduring question in correlated systems concerns whether superconductivity is favored at a quantum critical point (QCP) characterized by a divergent quasiparticle effective mass. Despite such a scenario being widely postulated in high Tc cuprates and invoked to explain non-Fermi liquid transport signatures, experimental evidence is lacking for a critical divergence under the superconducting dome. We use ultrastrong magnetic fields to measure quantum oscillations in underdoped YBa2Cu3O6+x, revealing a dramatic doping-dependent upturn in quasiparticle effective mass at a critical metal-insulator transition beneath the superconducting dome. Given the location of this QCP under a plateau in Tc in addition to a postulated QCP at optimal doping, we discuss the intriguing possibility of two intersecting superconducting subdomes, each centered at a critical Fermi surface instability.
关键词：fermi surface ; high temperature superconductivity ; metal-insulator transition ; quantum oscillations ; quantum critical point