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G. BlumbergBell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974, USA. [email protected]A. KoitzschBell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974A. GozarBell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974B. S. DennisBell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974Christopher A. KendzioraUnited States Naval Research Laboratory, Code 6333, Washington, D.C. 20375P. FournierCenter for Superconductivity Research and Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742R. L. GreeneCenter for Superconductivity Research and Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742
2002lv
ABI

Abstract

Low energy polarized electronic Raman scattering of the electron-doped superconductor ${\mathrm{Nd}}_{2\ensuremath{-}x}{\mathrm{Ce}}_{x}{\mathrm{CuO}}_{4}$ ( $x\phantom{\rule{0ex}{0ex}}=\phantom{\rule{0ex}{0ex}}0.15$, ${T}_{c}\phantom{\rule{0ex}{0ex}}=\phantom{\rule{0ex}{0ex}}22\mathrm{K}$) has revealed a nonmonotonic ${d}_{{x}^{2}{\ensuremath{-}y}^{2}}$ superconducting order parameter. It has a maximum gap of ${4.4k}_{B}{T}_{c}$ at Fermi surface intersections with an antiferromagnetic Brillouin zone (the ``hot spots'') and a smaller gap of ${3.3k}_{B}{T}_{c}$ at fermionic Brillouin zone boundaries. The gap enhancement in the vicinity of the hot spots emphasizes the role of antiferromagnetic fluctuations and the similarity in the origin of superconductivity for electron- and hole-doped cuprates.

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