Anomalous pseudogap formation in a nonsuperconducting crystal of Nd1.85Ce0.15CuO4+γ:: Implication of charge ordering

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Onose, Y [1 ]
Taguchi, Y [1 ]
Ishikawa, T [1 ]
Shinomori, S [1 ]
Ishizaka, K [1 ]
Tokura, Y [1 ]
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[1] Univ Tokyo, Dept Appl Phys, Tokyo 1138656, Japan
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.5120
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O4 [物理学];
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Temperature variation of optical conductivity and Raman spectra has been investigated comparatively for oxygenated antiferromagnetic and reduced superconducting crystals of Nd1.85Ce0.15CuO4+y. While the spectra of the reduced crystal change little with temperature, in the spectra of oxygenated crystal a conspicuous pseudogap structure evolves around 0.3 eV and activated infrared and Raman Cu-O phonon modes grow in intensity, with decreasing temperature from 340 K. The origin is proposed to be charge ordering instability induced by a minute amount of interstitial apical oxygen, which seems to be also responsible for the absence of superconductivity in an oxygenated (or as-grown) crystal.
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