Acoustic plasmons and conducting carriers in hole-doped cuprate superconductors

Singh, Amol; Huang, Hsiao-Yu; Lane, Christopher A.; Li, Jung-Han; Okamoto, Jun; Komiya, Seiki; Markiewicz, Robert S.; Bansil, Arun; Lee, T. K.; Fujimori, Atsushi; Chen, Chien-Te; Huang, Di-Jing

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.105.235105

Acoustic plasmons and conducting carriers in hole-doped cuprate superconductors

Journal Article · Wed Jun 15 00:00:00 EDT 2022 · Physical Review. B

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.105.235105· OSTI ID:1873327

^[1]; ^[1]; ^[2]; Li, Jung-Han ^[3]; Okamoto, Jun ^[1]; Komiya, Seiki ^[4]; Markiewicz, Robert S. ^[5]; Bansil, Arun ^[5]; Lee, T. K. ^[6]; ^[7]; Chen, Chien-Te ^[1]; ^[8]

National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Hsinchu (Taiwan)
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
National Tsing Hua Univ., Hsinchu (Taiwan)
Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Yokosuka, Kanagawa (Japan)
Northeastern University, Boston, MA (United States)
Academia Sinica, Taipei (Taiwan); Sun Yat-Sen Univ., Kaohsiung (Taiwan)
Waseda Univ., Shinjuku (Japan); National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Hsinchu (Taiwan)
National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Hsinchu (Taiwan); National Tsing Hua Univ., Hsinchu (Taiwan)

The layered crystal structures of cuprates enable collective charge excitations fundamentally different from those of three-dimensional metals. Acoustic plasmons have been observed in electron-doped cuprates by resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS); in contrast, whether acoustic plasmons exist in hole-doped cuprates is under debate, despite extensive measurements. This contrast led us to investigate the charge excitations of hole-doped cuprate La_2-xSr_xCuO₄. Here we present incidentenergy-dependent RIXS measurements and calculations of collective charge response via the loss function to reconcile the aforementioned issues. Our results provide evidence for the acoustic plasmons of Zhang-Rice singlet (ZRS), which has a character of the Cu 3d_x²-y² strongly hybridised with the O 2p orbitals; the metallic behaviour is implied to result from the movement of ZRS rather than the simple hopping of O 2p holes.

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Research Organization:: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science; Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan; USDOE Office of Science (SC). Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: 89233218CNA000001; FG02-07ER46352

OSTI ID:: 1873327

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-20-22849

Journal Information:: Physical Review. B, Journal Name: Physical Review. B Journal Issue: 23 Vol. 105; ISSN 2469-9950

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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