Superconducting gap of overdoped Tl2Ba2CuO6+δ observed by Raman scattering Original Research Article

We report Raman scattering spectra for single crystals of overdoped Tl2Ba2CuO6+δ (Tl-2201) at low temperatures. It was observed that the pair-breaking peaks in A1g and B1g spectra radically shift to lower energy with carrier doping. We interpret it as s-wave component mixing into d-wave, although the crystal structure is tetragonal. Since similar phenomena were observed also in YBa2Cu3Oy and Bi2Sr2CaCu2Oz, we conclude that s-wave mixing is a common property for overdoped high-Tc superconductors.