The microscopic structure of charge density waves in underdoped YBa2Cu3O6.54 revealed by x-ray diffraction

Huecker, M.; Blackburn, E.; Holmes, A. T.; Briffa, A. K. R.; Chang, J.; Bouchenoire, L.; Brown, S. D.; Liang, Ruixing; Bonn, D.; Hardy, W. N.; Christensen, N. B.; von Zimmermann, M.; Hayden, S. M.

doi:10.1038/ncomms10064

Title: The microscopic structure of charge density waves in underdoped YBa₂Cu₃O_6.54 revealed by x-ray diffraction

Journal Article · Wed Dec 09 00:00:00 EST 2015 · Nature Communications

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10064· OSTI ID:1240701

Huecker, M. ^[1]; Blackburn, E. ^[2]; Holmes, A. T. ^[2]; Briffa, A. K. R. ^[2]; Chang, J. ^[2]; Bouchenoire, L. ^[3]; Brown, S. D. ^[3]; Liang, Ruixing ^[4]; Bonn, D. ^[4]; Hardy, W. N. ^[4]; Christensen, N. B. ^[5]; von Zimmermann, M. ^[6]; Hayden, S. M. ^[7]

Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Univ. Zurich, Zurich (Switzerland)
European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), Grenoble (France); Univ. of Liverpool, Liverpool (United Kingdom)
Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC (Canada)
Technical Univ. of Denmark, Lyngby (Denmark)
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany)
Univ. of Bristol, Bristol (United Kingdom)

Charge density wave (CDW) order appears throughout the underdoped high-temperature cuprate superconductors, but the underlying symmetry breaking and the origin of the CDW remain unclear. We use X-ray diffraction to determine the microscopic structure of the CDWs in an archetypical cuprate YBa₂Cu₃O_6.54 at its superconducting transition temperature ~60 K. We find that the CDWs in this material break the mirror symmetry of the CuO₂ bilayers. The ionic displacements in the CDWs have two components, which are perpendicular and parallel to the CuO₂ planes, and are out of phase with each other. The planar oxygen atoms have the largest displacements, perpendicular to the CuO₂ planes. Our results allow many electronic properties of the underdoped cuprates to be understood. For example, the CDWs will lead to local variations in the electronic structure, giving an explicit explanation of density-wave states with broken symmetry observed in scanning tunnelling microscopy and soft X-ray measurements.

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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:: 1240701

Report Number(s):: BNL-111863-2016-JA; R&D Project: PO010; KC0201060

Journal Information:: Nature Communications, Vol. 6, Issue 25; ISSN 2041-1723

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