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    Phys Rev Lett. 2009 Jan 9;102(1):017004. Epub 2009 Jan 7.

    Quantum phase transition in the magnetic-field-induced normal state of optimum-doped high-Tc cuprate superconductors at low temperatures.

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    National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA.

    Abstract

    A 60 T magnetic field suppresses the superconducting transition temperature T_{c} in La_{2-p}Sr_{p}CuO_{4} to reveal a Hall number anomaly, which develops only at temperatures below zero-field T_{c} and peaks at the exact location of p that maximizes T_{c}. The anomaly bears a striking resemblance to observations in Bi_{2}Sr_{2-x}La_{x}CuO_{6+delta}, suggesting a normal-state phenomenology common to the cuprates that underlies the high-temperature superconducting phase. The peak is ascribed to a Fermi surface reconstruction at a quantum phase transition near optimum doping that is coincident with the collapse of the pseudogap state.

    PMID:
    19257230
    [PubMed]

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