Itinerant density wave instabilities at classical and quantum critical points

Feng, Yejun; van Wezel, Jasper; Wang, Jiyang; Flicker, Felix; Silevitch, D. M.; Littlewood, P. B.; Rosenbaum, T. F.

doi:10.1038/NPHYS3416

Title: Itinerant density wave instabilities at classical and quantum critical points

Journal Article · Mon Jul 27 04:00:00 UTC 2015 · Nature Physics

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/NPHYS3416 · OSTI ID:1237950

Feng, Yejun ^[1]; van Wezel, Jasper ^[2]; Wang, Jiyang ^[3]; Flicker, Felix ^[4]; Silevitch, D. M. ^[3]; Littlewood, P. B. ^[5]; Rosenbaum, T. F. ^[6]

Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source (APS); Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States). James Franck Inst. and Dept. of Physics
Univ. of Amsterdam (Netherlands). Inst. for Theoretical Physics
Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States). James Franck Inst. and Dept. of Physics
Univ. of Bristol (United Kingdom). H. H.Wills Physics Lab.
Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States). James Franck Inst. and Dept. of Physics; Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Physical Sciences and Engineering
Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States). James Franck Inst. and Dept. of Physics; California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States). Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy

Charge ordering in metals is a fundamental instability of the electron sea, occurring in a host of materials and often linked to other collective ground states such as superconductivity. What is difficult to parse, however, is whether the charge order originates among the itinerant electrons or whether it arises from the ionic lattice. Here in this study we employ high-resolution X-ray diffraction, combined with high-pressure and low-temperature techniques and theoretical modelling, to trace the evolution of the ordering wavevector Q in charge and spin density wave systems at the approach to both thermal and quantum phase transitions. The non-monotonic behaviour of Q with pressure and the limiting sinusoidal form of the density wave point to the dominant role of the itinerant instability in the vicinity of the critical points, with little influence from the lattice. Fluctuations rather than disorder seem to disrupt coherence.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22); National Science Foundation (NSF); Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1237950

Journal Information:: Nature Physics, Journal Name: Nature Physics Journal Issue: 10 Vol. 11; ISSN 1745-2473

Publisher:: Nature Publishing Group (NPG)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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