Critical Doping for the Onset of Fermi-Surface Reconstruction by Charge-Density-Wave Order in the Cuprate Superconductor La$ _{2-x} $Sr$_{x} $CuO$ _{4}$
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S. Badoux, S. Afshar, B. Michon, A. Ouellet, S. Fortier, D. Leboeuf, T. Croft, C. Lester, S. Hayden, H. Takagi
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K. Yamada, D. Graf, N. Doiron-Leyraud, L. Taillefer, L. Taillefer
/ Abstract
The Seebeck coefficient $S$ of the cuprate superconductor La$ _{2-x} $Sr$_{x} $CuO$ _{4}$ (LSCO) was measured in magnetic fields large enough to access the normal state at low temperatures, for a range of Sr concentrations from $x = 0.07$ to $x = 0.15$. For $x = 0.11$, 0.12, 0.125 and 0.13, $S/T$ decreases upon cooling to become negative at low temperatures. The same behavior is observed in the Hall coefficient $R_{H}(T)$. In analogy with other hole-doped cuprates at similar hole concentrations $p$, the negative $S$ and $R_{H}$ show that the Fermi surface of LSCO undergoes a reconstruction caused by the onset of charge-density-wave modulations. Such modulations have indeed been detected in LSCO by X-ray diffraction in precisely the same doping range. Our data show that in LSCO this Fermi-surface reconstruction is confined to $0.085 < p < 0.15$. We argue that in the field-induced normal state of LSCO, charge-density-wave order ends at a critical doping $p_{\rm CDW} = 0.15 \pm 0.005$, well below the pseudogap critical doping $p^\star \simeq 0.19$.
Journal: arXiv: Superconductivity