Probing complex low-dimensional solids with scanning probe microscopes: From charge density waves to high-temperature superconductivity

Author(s):  
Jie Liu
2017 ◽  
Vol 114 (47) ◽  
pp. 12430-12435 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Miao ◽  
J. Lorenzana ◽  
G. Seibold ◽  
Y. Y. Peng ◽  
A. Amorese ◽  
...  

Although all superconducting cuprates display charge-ordering tendencies, their low-temperature properties are distinct, impeding efforts to understand the phenomena within a single conceptual framework. While some systems exhibit stripes of charge and spin, with a locked periodicity, others host charge density waves (CDWs) without any obviously related spin order. Here we use resonant inelastic X-ray scattering to follow the evolution of charge correlations in the canonical stripe-ordered cuprate La1.875Ba0.125CuO4 across its ordering transition. We find that high-temperature charge correlations are unlocked from the wavevector of the spin correlations, signaling analogies to CDW phases in various other cuprates. This indicates that stripe order at low temperatures is stabilized by the coupling of otherwise independent charge and spin density waves, with important implications for the relation between charge and spin correlations in the cuprates.


Nano Letters ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 5432-5438 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ganbat Duvjir ◽  
Byoung Ki Choi ◽  
Iksu Jang ◽  
Søren Ulstrup ◽  
Soonmin Kang ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 116 (22) ◽  
pp. 10691-10697 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maxime Leroux ◽  
Vivek Mishra ◽  
Jacob P. C. Ruff ◽  
Helmut Claus ◽  
Matthew P. Smylie ◽  
...  

With the discovery of charge-density waves (CDWs) in most members of the cuprate high-temperature superconductors, the interplay between superconductivity and CDWs has become a key point in the debate on the origin of high-temperature superconductivity. Some experiments in cuprates point toward a CDW state competing with superconductivity, but others raise the possibility of a CDW-superconductivity intertwined order or more elusive pair-density waves (PDWs). Here, we have used proton irradiation to induce disorder in crystals of La1.875Ba0.125CuO4 and observed a striking 50% increase of Tc, accompanied by a suppression of the CDWs. This is in sharp contrast with the behavior expected of a d-wave superconductor, for which both magnetic and nonmagnetic defects should suppress Tc. Our results thus make an unambiguous case for the strong detrimental effect of the CDW on bulk superconductivity in La1.875Ba0.125CuO4. Using tunnel diode oscillator (TDO) measurements, we find indications for potential dynamic layer decoupling in a PDW phase. Our results establish irradiation-induced disorder as a particularly relevant tuning parameter for the many families of superconductors with coexisting density waves, which we demonstrate on superconductors such as the dichalcogenides and Lu5Ir4Si10.


2013 ◽  
Vol 27 (28) ◽  
pp. 1350164
Author(s):  
MIKIO FUKUHARA ◽  
YOSHIMASA UMEMORI

The amorphous Ni – Nb – Zr – H glassy alloy containing subnanometer-sized icosahedral Zr 5 Nb 5 Ni 3 clusters exhibited four types of electronic phenomena: a metal/insulator transition, an electric current-induced voltage oscillation (Coulomb oscillation), giant capacitor behavior and an electron avalanche with superior resistivity. These findings could be excluded by charge density waves that the low-dimensional component of clusters, in which the atoms are lined up in chains along the [130] direction, plays important roles in various electron transport phenomena.


1995 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 775-782 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. I. Dmitriev ◽  
G. V. Lashkarev ◽  
V. K. Kiselyev ◽  
V. K. Kononenko ◽  
E. M. Kuleshov

1999 ◽  
Vol 09 (PR10) ◽  
pp. Pr10-161-Pr10-163
Author(s):  
H. Matsukawa ◽  
H. Miyake ◽  
M. Yumoto ◽  
H. Fukuyama

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