Abstract
We have carefully studied the temperature dependence of tunneling spectra in underdoped and slightly overdoped Bi2212 single crystals. The underdoped spectra clearly show a pseudogap above Tc, while this gap features get very weak in slightly overdoped crystals. Without the pseudogap depression, the states in slightly overdoped spectra are always conserved. However, underdoped spectra do not conserve states even at temperatures when the material is in its superconducting state. We found that the conservation of states can be recovered by normalizing the superconducting spectra with the normal state pseudogap spectra. This clearly indicates the coexistence of pseudogap and superconducting gap. As we will show in the analysis section, this coexistence can also explain the hump and dip features commonly observed in tunneling spectra.
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