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Macroscopic evidence for quantum criticality and field-induced quantum fluctuations in cuprate superconductors

A. D. Beyer, V. S. Zapf, H. Yang, F. Fabris, M. S. Park, K. H. Kim, S. -I. Lee, N. -C. Yeh

cond-mat.supr-conarXiv:cond-mat/0612380

Abstract

We present macroscopic experimental evidence for field-induced microscopic quantum fluctuations in different hole- and electron-type cuprate superconductors with varying doping levels and numbers of CuO2 layers per unit cell. The significant suppression of the zero-temperature in-plane magnetic irreversibility field relative to the paramagnetic field in all cuprate superconductors suggests strong quantum fluctuations due to the proximity of the cuprates to quantum criticality.

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