Université de Fribourg

Clocking the onset of bilayer coherence in a high-${T}_{c}$ cuprate

Baldini, Edoardo ; Mann, Andreas ; Mallett, Benjamin P. P. ; Arrell, Christopher ; Mourik, Frank van ; Wolf, Thomas ; Mihailovic, Dragan ; Tallon, Jeffrey L. ; Bernhard, Christian ; Lorenzana, José ; Carbone, Fabrizio

In: Physical Review B, 2017, vol. 95, no. 2, p. 024501

In cuprates, a precursor state of superconductivity is speculated to exist above the critical temperature TC. Here we show via a combination of far-infrared ellipsometry and ultrafast broadband optical spectroscopy that signatures of such a state can be obtained via three independent observables in an underdoped sample of NdBa2Cu3O6+δ. The pseudogap correlations were disentangled from the...