scholarly journals Short-ranged and short-lived charge-density-wave order and pseudogap features in underdoped cuprate superconductors

2011 ◽  
Vol 83 (21) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrés Greco ◽  
Matías Bejas
Keyword(s):  
Charge Density ◽  
Charge Density Wave ◽  
Cuprate Superconductors ◽  
Density Wave

scholarly journals Energy Scale of the Charge Density Wave in Cuprate Superconductors

Proceedings ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
Sacuto ◽  
Loret ◽  
Auvray ◽  
Civelli ◽  
Indranil ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Charge Density ◽  
Charge Density Wave ◽  
Cuprate Superconductors ◽  
High Temperature Superconductors ◽  
Density Wave ◽  
Energy Scale ◽  
Hole Doping ◽  
Wide Range

The cuprate high temperature superconductors develop spontaneous charge density wave(CDW) order below a temperature TCDW and over a wide range of hole doping (p). [...]

scholarly journals Ideal charge-density-wave order in the high-field state of superconducting YBCO

2016 ◽  
Vol 113 (51) ◽  
pp. 14645-14650 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Jang ◽  
W.-S. Lee ◽  
H. Nojiri ◽  
S. Matsuzawa ◽  
H. Yasumura ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Charge Density ◽  
Critical Field ◽  
Ground State ◽  
Charge Density Wave ◽  
High Field ◽  
Cuprate Superconductors ◽  
Density Wave ◽  
Quantum Oscillation ◽  
Zero Field ◽  
Correlation Volume

The existence of charge-density-wave (CDW) correlations in cuprate superconductors has now been established. However, the nature of the CDW ground state has remained uncertain because disorder and the presence of superconductivity typically limit the CDW correlation lengths to only a dozen unit cells or less. Here we explore the field-induced 3D CDW correlations in extremely pure detwinned crystals of YBa2Cu3O2(YBCO) ortho-II and ortho-VIII at magnetic fields in excess of the resistive upper critical field (Hc2) where superconductivity is heavily suppressed. We observe that the 3D CDW is unidirectional and possesses a long in-plane correlation length as well as significant correlations between neighboring CuO2planes. It is significant that we observe only a single sharply defined transition at a critical field proportional toHc2, given that the field range used in this investigation overlaps with other high-field experiments including quantum oscillation measurements. The correlation volume is at least two to three orders of magnitude larger than that of the zero-field CDW. This is by far the largest CDW correlation volume observed in any cuprate crystal and so is presumably representative of the high-field ground state of an “ideal” disorder-free cuprate.

scholarly journals The Remarkable Underlying Ground States of Cuprate Superconductors

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 409-429 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cyril Proust ◽  
Louis Taillefer
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Charge Density ◽  
Ground State ◽  
Charge Density Wave ◽  
Cuprate Superconductors ◽  
Density Wave ◽  
Electronic Interactions ◽  
Pseudogap Phase ◽  
Doped Mott Insulator ◽  
Shed Light

Cuprates exhibit exceptionally strong superconductivity. To understand why, it is essential to elucidate the nature of the electronic interactions that cause pairing. Superconductivity occurs on the backdrop of several underlying electronic phases, including a doped Mott insulator at low doping, a strange metal at high doping, and an enigmatic pseudogap phase in between—inside which a phase of charge-density wave order appears. In this article, we shed light on the nature of these remarkable phases by focusing on the limit as [Formula: see text], where experimental signatures and theoretical statements become sharper. We therefore survey the ground-state properties of cuprates once superconductivity has been removed by the application of a magnetic field and distill their key universal features.

Incommensurate modulated phases of the NbxTa1-xTe4 charge density wave system

1992 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-59
Author(s):  
S. Ritchie ◽  
J. C. Bennett ◽  
A. Prodan ◽  
F.W. Boswell ◽  
J.M. Corbett
Keyword(s):  
Charge Density ◽  
Charge Density Wave ◽  
Direct Evidence ◽  
Density Wave ◽  
Wave System ◽  
Modulated Phases ◽  
Metal Atoms ◽  
Incommensurate Modulation ◽  
End Members ◽  
Modulation Wave Vector

A continuous sequence of compounds having composition NbxTa1-xTe4; 0 ≤ x ≤ 1 have been studied by electron diffraction and microscopy. Previous studies have shown that the end members of the series, TaTε4 and NbTε4 possess a quasi-one-dimensional character and exhibit charge density wave (CDW) distortions. In these compounds, the subcell structure is tetragonal with axes (a × a × c) and consists of the metal atoms (Nb or Ta) centered within an extended antiprismatic cage of Te atoms. At room temperature, TaTε4 has a commensurate modulation structure with a 2a × 2a × 3c unit cell. In NbTε4, an incommensurate modulation with × ∼ 16c axes is observed. Preliminary studies of the mixed compounds NbxTα1-xTε4 showed a discontinuous jump of the modulation wave vector commensurate to incommensurate when the Nb dopant concentration x, exceeded x ≃ 0.3, In this paper, the nature of the compositional dependence of is studied in greater detail and evidence is presented for a stepwise variation of . This constitutes the first direct evidence for a Devil's staircase in CDW materials.

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