Nematicity in stripe ordered cuprates probed via resonant x-ray scattering

Achkar, A. J.; Zwiebler, M.; McMahon, Christopher; He, F.; Sutarto, R.; Dijianto, Isaiah; Hao, Zhihao; Gingras, Michael J.P.; Hucker, M.; Gu, G. D.; Revcolevschi, A.; Zhang, H.; Kim, Y. -J.; Geck, J.

doi:10.1126/science.aad1824

Title: Nematicity in stripe ordered cuprates probed via resonant x-ray scattering

Journal Article · Fri Feb 05 00:00:00 EST 2016 · Science

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aad1824· OSTI ID:1240593

Achkar, A. J. ^[1]; Zwiebler, M. ^[2]; McMahon, Christopher ^[1]; He, F. ^[3]; Sutarto, R. ^[3]; Dijianto, Isaiah ^[1]; Hao, Zhihao ^[1]; Gingras, Michael J.P. ^[4]; Hucker, M. ^[5]; Gu, G. D. ^[5]; Revcolevschi, A. ^[6]; Zhang, H. ^[7]; Kim, Y. -J. ^[7]; Geck, J. ^[8]

Univ. of Waterloo, ON (Canada)
Leibniz Inst. for Solid State and Materials Research (IFW), Dresden (Germany)
Canadian Light Sources, Inc., Saskatoon, SK (Canada)
Univ. of Waterloo, ON (Canada); Canadian Inst. for Advanced Research, Toronto, ON (Canada); Perimeter Inst. for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, ON (Canada)
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Univ. Paris-Sud, Orsay (France)
Univ. of Toronto, ON (Canada)
Leibniz Inst. for Solid State and Materials Research (IFW), Dresden (Germany); Paris Lodron Univ., Salzburg (Austria)

We found that in underdoped cuprate superconductors, a rich competition occurs between superconductivity and charge density wave (CDW) order. Whether rotational symmetry-breaking (nematicity) occurs intrinsically and generically or as a consequence of other orders is under debate. Here, we employ resonant x-ray scattering in stripe-ordered superconductors (La,M)₂CuO₄ to probe the relationship between electronic nematicity of the Cu 3d orbitals, structure of the (La,M)₂O₂ layers, and CDW order. We find distinct temperature dependences for the structure of the (La,M)₂O₂ layers and the electronic nematicity of the CuO₂ planes, with only the latter being enhanced by the onset of CDW order. Our results identify electronic nematicity as an order parameter that is distinct from a purely structural order parameter in underdoped striped cuprates.

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Research Organization:: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC00112704

OSTI ID:: 1240593

Report Number(s):: BNL-111782-2016-JA; R&D Project: PO010; KC0201060

Journal Information:: Science, Vol. 351, Issue 6273; ISSN 0036-8075

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