Tracking Cooper pairs in a cuprate superconductor by ultrafast angle-resolved photoemission |
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Authors: | Smallwood Christopher L Hinton James P Jozwiak Christopher Zhang Wentao Koralek Jake D Eisaki Hiroshi Lee Dung-Hai Orenstein Joseph Lanzara Alessandra |
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Institution: | Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. |
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Abstract: | In high-temperature superconductivity, the process that leads to the formation of Cooper pairs, the fundamental charge carriers in any superconductor, remains mysterious. We used a femtosecond laser pump pulse to perturb superconducting Bi(2)Sr(2)CaCu(2)O(8+δ) and studied subsequent dynamics using time- and angle-resolved photoemission and infrared reflectivity probes. Gap and quasiparticle population dynamics revealed marked dependencies on both excitation density and crystal momentum. Close to the d-wave nodes, the superconducting gap was sensitive to the pump intensity, and Cooper pairs recombined slowly. Far from the nodes, pumping affected the gap only weakly, and recombination processes were faster. These results demonstrate a new window into the dynamical processes that govern quasiparticle recombination and gap formation in cuprates. |
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