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Title: Observation of a three-dimensional quasi-long-range electronic supermodulation in YBa2Cu3O7-x/La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 heterostructures

Abstract

Recent developments in high-temperature superconductivity highlight a generic tendency of the cuprates to develop competing electronic (charge) supermodulations. While coupled with the lattice and showing different characteristics in different materials, these supermodulations themselves are generally conceived to be quasi-two-dimensional, residing mainly in individual CuO2 planes, and poorly correlated along the c axis. Here we observed with resonant elastic X-ray scattering a distinct type of electronic supermodulation in YBa2Cu3O7–x (YBCO) thin films grown epitaxially on La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 (LCMO). This supermodulation has a periodicity nearly commensurate with four lattice constants in-plane, eight out of plane, with long correlation lengths in three dimensions. It sets in far above the superconducting transition temperature and competes with superconductivity below this temperature for electronic states predominantly in the CuO2 plane. Our finding sheds light on the nature of charge ordering in cuprates as well as a reported long-range proximity effect between superconductivity and ferromagnetism in YBCO/LCMO heterostructures.

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 [1];  [2];  [1];  [3];  [4];  [1];  [2];  [2];  [1];  [5];  [6];  [2];  [1]
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  1. Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA (United States)
  2. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  3. National Chiao Tung Univ., Hsinchu (Taiwan)
  4. Durham Univ., Durham (United Kingdom)
  5. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); National Chiao Tung Univ., Hsinchu (Taiwan)
  6. Academia Sinica, Taipei (Taiwan); National Chiao Tung Univ., Hsinchu (Taiwan)
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Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1379124
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Nature Communications
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 7; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher:
Nature Publishing Group
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; Electronic properties and materials; Superconducting properties and materials

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He, Junfeng, Shafer, Padraic, Mion, Thomas R., Tra, Vu Thanh, He, Qing, Kong, J., Chuang, Y. -D., Yang, W. L., Graf, M. J., Lin, J. -Y., Chu, Y. -H., Arenholz, E., and He, Rui -Hua. Observation of a three-dimensional quasi-long-range electronic supermodulation in YBa2Cu3O7-x/La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 heterostructures. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1038/ncomms10852.
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He, Junfeng, Shafer, Padraic, Mion, Thomas R., Tra, Vu Thanh, He, Qing, Kong, J., Chuang, Y. -D., Yang, W. L., Graf, M. J., Lin, J. -Y., Chu, Y. -H., Arenholz, E., & He, Rui -Hua. Observation of a three-dimensional quasi-long-range electronic supermodulation in YBa2Cu3O7-x/La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 heterostructures. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10852
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He, Junfeng, Shafer, Padraic, Mion, Thomas R., Tra, Vu Thanh, He, Qing, Kong, J., Chuang, Y. -D., Yang, W. L., Graf, M. J., Lin, J. -Y., Chu, Y. -H., Arenholz, E., and He, Rui -Hua. Tue . "Observation of a three-dimensional quasi-long-range electronic supermodulation in YBa2Cu3O7-x/La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 heterostructures". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10852. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1379124.
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@article{osti_1379124,
title = {Observation of a three-dimensional quasi-long-range electronic supermodulation in YBa2Cu3O7-x/La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 heterostructures},
author = {He, Junfeng and Shafer, Padraic and Mion, Thomas R. and Tra, Vu Thanh and He, Qing and Kong, J. and Chuang, Y. -D. and Yang, W. L. and Graf, M. J. and Lin, J. -Y. and Chu, Y. -H. and Arenholz, E. and He, Rui -Hua},
abstractNote = {Recent developments in high-temperature superconductivity highlight a generic tendency of the cuprates to develop competing electronic (charge) supermodulations. While coupled with the lattice and showing different characteristics in different materials, these supermodulations themselves are generally conceived to be quasi-two-dimensional, residing mainly in individual CuO2 planes, and poorly correlated along the c axis. Here we observed with resonant elastic X-ray scattering a distinct type of electronic supermodulation in YBa2Cu3O7–x (YBCO) thin films grown epitaxially on La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 (LCMO). This supermodulation has a periodicity nearly commensurate with four lattice constants in-plane, eight out of plane, with long correlation lengths in three dimensions. It sets in far above the superconducting transition temperature and competes with superconductivity below this temperature for electronic states predominantly in the CuO2 plane. Our finding sheds light on the nature of charge ordering in cuprates as well as a reported long-range proximity effect between superconductivity and ferromagnetism in YBCO/LCMO heterostructures.},
doi = {10.1038/ncomms10852},
journal = {Nature Communications},
number = ,
volume = 7,
place = {United States},
year = {2016},
month = {3}
}
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