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Large response of charge stripes to uniaxial stress in La1.475Nd0.4Sr0.125CuO4

Journal Article · · Physical Review Research
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  1. Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States); Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States)
  2. Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States)
  3. Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States); Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
  4. Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB), (Germany)
  5. Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC (Canada); Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (Canada)
  6. Univ. of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK (Canada)
  7. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  8. Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States)
  9. Max Planck Society, Dresden (Germany). Max Planck Inst. for Chemical Physics of Solids
  10. Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC (Canada)
  11. Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States)
  12. Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), San Sebastian (Spain); Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao (Spain). IKERBASQUE
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The La-based "214"cuprates host several symmetry-breaking phases, including superconductivity, charge and spin order in the form of stripes, and a structural orthorhombic-to-tetragonal phase transition. Therefore these materials are an ideal system to study the effects of uniaxial stress onto the various correlations that pervade the cuprate phase diagram. We report resonant x-ray scattering experiments on La1.475Nd0.4Sr0.125CuO4 (LNSCO-125) that reveal a significant response of charge stripes to uniaxial tensile stress of ~0.1GPa. These effects include a reduction of the onset temperature of stripes by ~50K, a 29-K reduction of the low-temperature orthorhombic-to-tetragonal transition, competition between charge order and superconductivity, and a preference for stripes to form along the direction of applied stress. Altogether, we observe a dramatic response of the electronic properties of LNSCO-125 to a modest amount of uniaxial stress.

Research Organization:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities Division; National Science Foundation (NSF); European Union (EU); German Research Foundation (DFG); Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation of Spain (MINECO)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-05CH11231
OSTI ID:
1887194
Journal Information:
Physical Review Research, Journal Name: Physical Review Research Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 3; ISSN 2643-1564
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
charge density waves
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impurities in superconductors
phase transitions
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single crystal materials
stripes
strongly correlated systems
superconducting phase transition
unconventional superconductors
x-ray diffraction