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Recent experiments on Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ (Bi2212) have provided compelling evidence that the samples are inhomogeneous on a nanoscale, with spatially separated superconducting gap (SG) and nonsuperconducting, pseudogap (PG) regions that arise from hole–hole and particle–hole pairings, respectively. We compare and contrast the nonphase sensitive experiments that cannot distinguish these orderings from the phase-sensitive experiments that can. Although the wave vector dependence of the pseudogap is highly anisotropic, we conclude that in Bi2212, the c-axis quasiparticle tunneling is incoherent and that the c-axis supercurrent arises solely from a rather isotropic s-wave superconducting order parameter (OP) for T < Tc.
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Klemm, R.A. The Pseudogap and the Superconducting Order Parameter in Inhomogeneous Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ . Journal of Superconductivity 17, 69–74 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:JOSC.0000011843.29433.8a
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