Spatially modulated susceptibility in thin film La2-xBaxCuO4

Davis, Samantha I.; Ullah, Rahim R.; Adamo, Carolina; Watson, Christopher A.; Kirtley, John R.; Beasley, Malcolm R.; Kivelson, Steven A.; Moler, Kathryn A.

doi:10.1103/physrevb.98.014506

Title: Spatially modulated susceptibility in thin film ${La}_{2 - x} {Ba}_{x} {CuO}_{4}$

Journal Article · Wed Jul 11 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · Physical Review B

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.98.014506· OSTI ID:1461813

Davis, Samantha I. ^[1]; Ullah, Rahim R. ^[2]; Adamo, Carolina ^[3]; Watson, Christopher A. ^[4]; Kirtley, John R. ^[3]; Beasley, Malcolm R. ^[3]; Kivelson, Steven A. ^[5]; Moler, Kathryn A. ^[6]

Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Dept. of Physics
Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Dept. of Physics; Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics
Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Geballe Lab. for Advanced Materials
Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Dept. of Applied Physics; SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science (SIMES)
Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Dept. of Physics; SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science (SIMES)
Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Dept. of Physics, Dept. of Applied Physics and Geballe Lab. for Advanced Materials; SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science (SIMES)

The high critical temperature superconductor Lanthanum Barium Copper Oxide (La_2-xBa_xCuO₄ or LBCO) exhibits a strong anomaly in critical temperature at 1/8th doping, nematicity, and other interesting properties. Here, we report Scanning Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID) imaging of the magnetic fields and susceptibility in a number of thin film LBCO samples with doping in the vicinity of the 1/8th anomaly. Spatially resolved measurements of the critical temperatures of these samples do not show a pronounced depression at 1/8th doping. They do, however, exhibit strong, nearly linear modulations of the susceptibility (“striae”) of multiple samples with surprisingly long periods of 1 - 4 μm. Counterintuitively, vortices trap in positions of largest diamagnetic susceptibility in these striae. Given the rich interplay of different orders in this material system and its known sensitivity to epitaxial strain, we propose phase separation as a possible origin of these features and discuss scenarios in which that might arise.

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Research Organization:: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); Stanford Univ., CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division; National Science Foundation (NSF); US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-76SF00515; ECCS-1542152; DMR-0957616; FA9550-09-1-0583

OSTI ID:: 1461813

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1459649; OSTI ID: 1459739

Journal Information:: Physical Review B, Vol. 98, Issue 1; ISSN 2469-9950

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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