Analysis of the diverging effective mass in YaBa2Cu3O6+x for high-Tc mechanism and pairing symmetry

Abstract

In order to clarify the high-T[Formula: see text] mechanism in inhomogeneous cuprate layer superconductors, we deduce and find the correlation strength which has not revealed before, contributing to the formation of the Cooper pair and the two-dimensional density of state, and demonstrate the pairing symmetry in the superconductors which is still controversial. To the open questions, the fitting and analysis of the diverging effective mass with decreasing doping, extracted from the acquired quantum-oscillation data in underdoped YaBa2Cu3O[Formula: see text] superconductors, using the extended Brinkman–Rice (BR) picture, reveal the nodal constant Fermi energy with the maximum carrier density, a constant Coulomb correlation strength [Formula: see text]=U/U[Formula: see text]0.90, and a growing Fermi arc from the nodal Fermi point to the isotropic Fermi surface with an increasing x. The growing of the Fermi arc indicates that a superconducting gap develops with x from the node (underdoped) to the anti-node (optimally or over-doped). The large [Formula: see text] results from the [Formula: see text]-wave metal–insulator transition for the pseudogap phase in lightly doped superconductors, which can be direct evidence for high-T[Formula: see text] superconductivity. The quantum critical point is regarded as the nodal Fermi point satisfied with the BR picture. The experimentally measured mass diverging behavior is an average effect and the true effective mass is constant. As an application of the nodal constant carrier density, the superconducting node gap analyzed by an angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) is a precursor of s-wave symmetry in underdoped cuprates. Furthermore, the half-flux quantum, induced by the circulation of d-wave supercurrent and observed by the phase sensitive Josephson-[Formula: see text] junction experiments, is not shown due to “anisotropic or asymmetric effect” appearing in superconductors with trapped flux.