In:
Nature Communications, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, Vol. 14, No. 1 ( 2023-07-14)
Abstract:
The currently established electronic phase diagram of cuprates is based on a study of single- and double-layered compounds. These CuO 2 planes, however, are directly contacted with dopant layers, thus inevitably disordered with an inhomogeneous electronic state. Here, we solve this issue by investigating a 6-layered Ba 2 Ca 5 Cu 6 O 12 (F,O) 2 with inner CuO 2 layers, which are clean with the extremely low disorder, by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) and quantum oscillation measurements. We find a tiny Fermi pocket with a doping level less than 1% to exhibit well-defined quasiparticle peaks which surprisingly lack the polaronic feature. This provides the first evidence that the slightest amount of carriers is enough to turn a Mott insulating state into a metallic state with long-lived quasiparticles. By tuning hole carriers, we also find an unexpected phase transition from the superconducting to metallic states at 4%. Our results are distinct from the nodal liquid state with polaronic features proposed as an anomaly of the heavily underdoped cuprates.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
2041-1723
DOI:
10.1038/s41467-023-39457-7
Language:
English
Publisher:
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Publication Date:
2023
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