J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 89, 064707 (2020) [6 Pages]
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Divergent Nematic Susceptibility near the Pseudogap Critical Point in a Cuprate Superconductor

Shin-ichi Uchida
JPSJ News Comments 17,  07 (2020).

Kousuke Ishida1, , Suguru Hosoi1, , Yuki Teramoto2, Tomohiro Usui2, Yuta Mizukami1 , Kenji Itaka3 , Yuji Matsuda4, Takao Watanabe2 , and Takasada Shibauchi1,
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1Department of Advanced Materials Science, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8561, Japan2Graduate School of Science and Technology, Hirosaki University, Hirosaki, Aomori 036-8561, Japan3Institute of Regional Innovation, Hirosaki University, Aomori 030-0813, Japan4Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
Received March 4, 2020; Accepted April 9, 2020; Published May 15, 2020

In strongly correlated materials, superconductivity is often found near a magnetic quantum critical point (QCP) where a magnetic phase vanishes and its fluctuations proliferate, suggesting unconventional superconductivity mechanisms driven by spin fluctuations. In cuprate superconductors, however, the superconducting transition temperature Tc attains its maximum not at the antiferromagnetic vanishing point, but near the verge of enigmatic pseudogap state that appears below doping-dependent temperature T*. Thus a key question is what kind of fluctuations are associated with the pseudogap. Here we report elastoresistance measurements of nematic susceptibility in (Bi,Pb)2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ, which is sensitive to an electronic order with twofold in-plane anisotropy. The nematic susceptibility shows an anomaly at T*, evidencing a phase transition with broken rotational symmetry. Near the pseudogap end point, nematic susceptibility becomes singular and divergent. This signifies the presence of a nematic QCP, which has emerging links to the high-Tc superconductivity and strange metallic behaviors in cuprates.

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