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Phase diagram and optical conductivity of La1.8-xEu0.2SrxCuO4
La1.8-xEu0.2SrxCuO4 (LESCO) is the member of the 214 family which exhibits
the largest intervals among the structural, charge ordering (CO), magnetic, and
superconducting transition temperatures. By using new dc transport measurements
and data in the literature we construct the phase diagram of LESCO between x =
0.8 and 0.20. This phase diagram has been further probed in ac, by measuring
the optical conductivity {\sigma}1({\omega}) of three single crystals with x =
0.11, 0.125, and 0.16 between 10 and 300 K in order to associate the
extra-Drude peaks often observed in the 214 family with a given phase. The
far-infrared peak we detect in underdoped LESCO is the hardest among them,
survives up to room temperature and is associated with charge localization
rather than with ordering. At the CO transition for the commensurate doping x =
0.125 instead the extra-Drude peak hardens and a pseudogap opens in
{\sigma}1({\omega}), approximately as wide as the maximum superconducting gap
of LSCO.Comment: 6 pages, 6 figure
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