Materials preparation, single-crystal growth, and the phase diagram of the cuprate high-temperature superconductor La1.6-xNd0.4SrxCuO4

Dragomir, Mirela; Ma, Qianli; Clancy, J. Patrick; Ataei, Amirreza; Dube, Paul A.; Sharma, Sudarshan; Huq, Ashfia; Dabkowska, Hanna A.; Taillefer, Louis; Gaulin, Bruce D.

doi:10.1103/physrevmaterials.4.114801

Title: Materials preparation, single-crystal growth, and the phase diagram of the cuprate high-temperature superconductor La_1.6-xNd_0.4Sr_xCuO₄

Journal Article · Wed Nov 04 00:00:00 EST 2020 · Physical Review Materials

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevmaterials.4.114801· OSTI ID:1787225

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McMaster Univ., Hamilton, ON (Canada); Brockhouse Inst. for Materials Research, Hamilton, ON (Canada); Jozef Stefan Inst., Ljubljana (Slovenia)
McMaster Univ., Hamilton, ON (Canada)
Brockhouse Inst. for Materials Research, Hamilton, ON (Canada); McMaster Univ., Hamilton, ON (Canada)
Univ. de Sherbrooke, QC (Canada). Inst. Quantique
Brockhouse Inst. for Materials Research, Hamilton, ON (Canada)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Univ. de Sherbrooke, QC (Canada). Inst. Quantique; Canadian Inst. for Advanced Research, Toronto, ON (Canada)
Brockhouse Inst. for Materials Research, Hamilton, ON (Canada); McMaster Univ., Hamilton, ON (Canada); Canadian Inst. for Advanced Research, Toronto, ON (Canada)

One branch of the La-214 family of cuprate superconductors, La_1.6-xNd_0.4Sr_xCuO₄ (NdLSCO), has been of significant and sustained interest, in large part because it displays the full complexity of the phase diagram for canonical hole-doped, high TC superconductivity, while also displaying relatively low superconducting critical temperatures. The low superconducting TC’s imply that experimentally accessible magnetic fields can suppress the superconductivity to zero temperature. In particular, this has enabled various transport and thermodynamic studies of the T = 0 ground state in Nd-LSCO, free of superconductivity, across the critical doping p* = 0.23 where the pseudogap phase ends. The strong dependence of its superconducting properties on its crystal symmetry has itself motivated careful studies of the Nd-LSCO structural phase diagram. This paper provides a systematic study and summary of the materials preparation and characterization of both single crystal and polycrystalline samples of Nd-LSCO. Single-phase polycrystalline samples with x spanning the range from 0.01 to 0.40 have been synthesized, and large single crystals of La_1.6-xNd_0.4Sr_xCuO₄ for select x across the region (0.07, 0.12, 0.17, 0.19, 0.225, 0.24, and 0.26) were grown by the optical floating zone method. Furthermore, systematic neutron and X-ray diffraction studies on these samples were performed at both low and room temperatures, 10 K and 300 K, respectively. These studies allowed us to follow the various structural phase transitions and propose an updated structural phase diagram for NdLSCO. In particular, we found that the low-temperature tetragonal (LTT) phase ends at a critical doping p_LTT = 0.255±0.005, clearly separated from p*.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

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

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 1787225

Journal Information:: Physical Review Materials, Vol. 4, Issue 11; ISSN 2475-9953

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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