Search for ferromagnetic order in overdoped copper-oxide superconductors

Wu, J.; Lauter, V.; Ambaye, H.; He, X.; Božović, I.

doi:10.1038/srep45896

Title: Search for ferromagnetic order in overdoped copper-oxide superconductors

Journal Article · Wed Apr 05 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Scientific Reports

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/srep45896· OSTI ID:1351721

Wu, J. ^[1]; Lauter, V. ^[2]; Ambaye, H. ^[3]; He, X. ^[4]; Božović, I. ^[5]

Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Quantum Condensed Matter Division
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Instrument and Source Division
Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States). Applied Physics Dept.
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States). Applied Physics Dept.

In copper-oxides that show high-temperature superconductivity (HTS), the critical temperature (Tc) has a dome-shaped doping dependence. The cause of demise of both Tc and superfluid density ns on the overdoped side is a major puzzle. A recent study of transport and diamagnetism in a large number of overdoped La2-xSrxCuO4 (LSCO) films shows that this cannot be accounted for by disorder within the conventional Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer theory. This brings to focus an alternative explanation — competition of HTS with ferromagnetic order, fluctuating in superconducting samples and static beyond the superconductor-to-metal transition. Here, we examine this proposal by growing single-crystal LSCO thin films with doping on both sides of the transition by molecular beam epitaxy, and using polarized neutron reflectometry to measure their magnetic moments. In a heavily overdoped, metallic but non-superconducting LSCO (x = 0.35) film, the spin asymmetry of reflectivity shows a very small static magnetic moment (~2 emu/cm3). Less-doped, superconducting LSCO films show no magnetic moment in neutron reflectivity, both above and below Tc. Therefore, the collapse of HTS with overdoping is not caused by competing ferromagnetic order.

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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:: SC0012704; GBMF4410

OSTI ID:: 1351721

Report Number(s):: BNL-113691-2017-JA; R&D Project: MA509MACA; KC0203020

Journal Information:: Scientific Reports, Vol. 7; ISSN 2045-2322

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