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K. McElroyPhysics Department, University of California, Berkeley, 94720, USAD.-H. LeeMaterial Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab., Berkeley, California 94720, USAJennifer E. HoffmanDepartment of Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USAKyle M. LangDepartment of Physics, Colorado College, Colorado 80305, USAJhinhwan LeeLASSP, Department of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850, USAEric HudsonDepartment of Physics,MIT, Cambridge Massachusetts 02139, USAHiroshi EisakiS. UchidaDepartment of Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-8656 JapanJ. C. DavisLASSP, Department of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850, USA
2005lv
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The doping dependence of nanoscale electronic structure in superconducting ${\mathrm{Bi}}_{2}{\mathrm{Sr}}_{2}\mathrm{Ca}{\mathrm{Cu}}_{2}{\mathrm{O}}_{8+\ensuremath{\delta}}$ is studied by scanning tunneling microscopy. At all dopings, the low energy density-of-states modulations are analyzed according to a simple model of quasiparticle interference and found to be consistent with Fermi-arc superconductivity. The superconducting coherence peaks, ubiquitous in near-optimal tunneling spectra, are destroyed with strong underdoping and a new spectral type appears. Exclusively in regions exhibiting this new spectrum, we find local ``checkerboard'' charge ordering of high energy states, with a wave vector of $\stackrel{\ensuremath{\rightarrow}}{Q}=(\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}2\ensuremath{\pi}/4.5{a}_{0},0)$; $(0,\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}2\ensuremath{\pi}/4.5{a}_{0})\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}15%$. Surprisingly, this spatial ordering of high energy states coexists harmoniously with the low energy Bogoliubov quasiparticle states.

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