Limits on spin-charge separation from h/2e fluxoids in very underdoped YBa2Cu3O6+x - art. no. 197002

Magnetic flux in superconductors is usually quantized in units of h/2e. Her e we report scanning SQUID and scanning Hall probe studies of single fluxoi ds in high purity YBa2Cu3O6.35 Crystals (T-c less than or similar to 13 K), extending flux quantization studies to a region of the cuprate phase diagr am where the superfluid density is sufficiently low that novel behavior has been predicted. Some scenarios in which superconductivity results from spi n-charge separation predict h/e fluxoids in materials with low superfluid d ensity. Our observations of only h/2e fluxoids set limits on these theories .