Abstract
Tunneling spectroscopy measurements are reported on single crystals of using vacuum tunneling and point-contact methods. A reproducible dip feature in the tunneling conductance is found near , observed for both voltage polarities in the best resolved spectra. With overdoping the position of the dip continues to scale with , and its magnitude decreases as decreases. These results indicate that the dip feature arises from a strong-coupling effect whereby the quasiparticle lifetime is decreased at a characteristic energy of , consistent with an electron-electron pairing interaction.
- Received 7 July 1997
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.153
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