Observation of a three-dimensional quasi-long-range electronic supermodulation in YBa2Cu3O7-x/La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 heterostructures

He, Junfeng; Shafer, Padraic; Mion, Thomas R.; Tra, Vu Thanh; He, Qing; Kong, J.; Chuang, Y. -D.; Yang, W. L.; Graf, M. J.; Lin, J. -Y.; Chu, Y. -H.; Arenholz, E.; He, Rui -Hua

doi:10.1038/ncomms10852

Observation of a three-dimensional quasi-long-range electronic supermodulation in YBa₂Cu₃O_7-x/La_0.7Ca_0.3MnO₃ heterostructures

Journal Article · Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 2016 · Nature Communications

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10852· OSTI ID:1379124

He, Junfeng ^[1]; Shafer, Padraic ^[2]; Mion, Thomas R. ^[1]; Tra, Vu Thanh ^[3]; He, Qing ^[4]; Kong, J. ^[1]; Chuang, Y. -D. ^[2]; Yang, W. L. ^[2]; Graf, M. J. ^[1]; Lin, J. -Y. ^[5]; Chu, Y. -H. ^[6]; Arenholz, E. ^[2]; He, Rui -Hua ^[1]

Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA (United States)
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
National Chiao Tung Univ., Hsinchu (Taiwan)
Durham Univ., Durham (United Kingdom)
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); National Chiao Tung Univ., Hsinchu (Taiwan)
Academia Sinica, Taipei (Taiwan); National Chiao Tung Univ., Hsinchu (Taiwan)

Recent developments in high-temperature superconductivity highlight a generic tendency of the cuprates to develop competing electronic (charge) supermodulations. While coupled with the lattice and showing different characteristics in different materials, these supermodulations themselves are generally conceived to be quasi-two-dimensional, residing mainly in individual CuO₂ planes, and poorly correlated along the c axis. Here we observed with resonant elastic X-ray scattering a distinct type of electronic supermodulation in YBa₂Cu₃O_7–x (YBCO) thin films grown epitaxially on La_0.7Ca_0.3MnO₃(LCMO). This supermodulation has a periodicity nearly commensurate with four lattice constants in-plane, eight out of plane, with long correlation lengths in three dimensions. It sets in far above the superconducting transition temperature and competes with superconductivity below this temperature for electronic states predominantly in the CuO₂ plane. Our finding sheds light on the nature of charge ordering in cuprates as well as a reported long-range proximity effect between superconductivity and ferromagnetism in YBCO/LCMO heterostructures.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1379124

Journal Information:: Nature Communications, Journal Name: Nature Communications Vol. 7; ISSN 2041-1723

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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