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Title: Magnetic phase diagram of underdoped YBa 2 Cu 3 O y inferred from torque magnetization and thermal conductivity

Abstract

We obtain the magnetic phase diagram in the underdoped cuprate YBa2Cu3Oy using torque magnetometry at temperatures 0.3–70 K and magnetic fields up to 45 T. At low fields, vortices (quantized flux tubes) form a vortex solid that is strongly pinned to the lattice. At large fields, melting of the solid to a vortex liquid produces nonzero dissipation. However, the vortex liquid persists to fields above 41 T. We have also mapped out the “transition” fields at which the charge-density–wave state (observed in X-ray diffraction experiments) becomes stable. Our results show that, in intense fields, superconductivity adjusts to coexist with the charge-density wave, but the Cooper pairs, which define the superconducting fluid, survive to fields well above 41 T.

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1329961
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SC0008110
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Journal Name:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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Journal Name: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Journal Volume: 113 Journal Issue: 45; Journal ID: ISSN 0027-8424
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National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC (United States)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY

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Yu, Fan, Hirschberger, Max, Loew, Toshinao, Li, Gang, Lawson, Benjamin J., Asaba, Tomoya, Kemper, J. B., Liang, Tian, Porras, Juan, Boebinger, Gregory S., Singleton, John, Keimer, Bernhard, Li, Lu, and Ong, N. Phuan. Magnetic phase diagram of underdoped YBa 2 Cu 3 O y inferred from torque magnetization and thermal conductivity. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1073/pnas.1612591113.
Yu, Fan, Hirschberger, Max, Loew, Toshinao, Li, Gang, Lawson, Benjamin J., Asaba, Tomoya, Kemper, J. B., Liang, Tian, Porras, Juan, Boebinger, Gregory S., Singleton, John, Keimer, Bernhard, Li, Lu, & Ong, N. Phuan. Magnetic phase diagram of underdoped YBa 2 Cu 3 O y inferred from torque magnetization and thermal conductivity. United States. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1612591113
Yu, Fan, Hirschberger, Max, Loew, Toshinao, Li, Gang, Lawson, Benjamin J., Asaba, Tomoya, Kemper, J. B., Liang, Tian, Porras, Juan, Boebinger, Gregory S., Singleton, John, Keimer, Bernhard, Li, Lu, and Ong, N. Phuan. Mon . "Magnetic phase diagram of underdoped YBa 2 Cu 3 O y inferred from torque magnetization and thermal conductivity". United States. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1612591113.
@article{osti_1329961,
title = {Magnetic phase diagram of underdoped YBa 2 Cu 3 O y inferred from torque magnetization and thermal conductivity},
author = {Yu, Fan and Hirschberger, Max and Loew, Toshinao and Li, Gang and Lawson, Benjamin J. and Asaba, Tomoya and Kemper, J. B. and Liang, Tian and Porras, Juan and Boebinger, Gregory S. and Singleton, John and Keimer, Bernhard and Li, Lu and Ong, N. Phuan},
abstractNote = {We obtain the magnetic phase diagram in the underdoped cuprate YBa2Cu3Oy using torque magnetometry at temperatures 0.3–70 K and magnetic fields up to 45 T. At low fields, vortices (quantized flux tubes) form a vortex solid that is strongly pinned to the lattice. At large fields, melting of the solid to a vortex liquid produces nonzero dissipation. However, the vortex liquid persists to fields above 41 T. We have also mapped out the “transition” fields at which the charge-density–wave state (observed in X-ray diffraction experiments) becomes stable. Our results show that, in intense fields, superconductivity adjusts to coexist with the charge-density wave, but the Cooper pairs, which define the superconducting fluid, survive to fields well above 41 T.},
doi = {10.1073/pnas.1612591113},
journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America},
number = 45,
volume = 113,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Oct 24 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Mon Oct 24 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}

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