Spatially modulated susceptibility in thin film La2-xBaxCuO4

Davis, Samantha I.; Ullah, Rahim R.; Adamo, Carolina; Watson, Christopher A.; Kirtley, John R.; Beasley, Malcolm R.; Kivelson, Steven A.; Moler, Kathryn A.

doi:10.1103/physrevb.98.014506

Title: Spatially modulated susceptibility in thin film ${La}_{2 - x} {Ba}_{x} {CuO}_{4}$

Abstract

The high critical temperature superconductor Lanthanum Barium Copper Oxide (La_2-xBa_xCuO₄ or LBCO) exhibits a strong anomaly in critical temperature at 1/8th doping, nematicity, and other interesting properties. Here, we report Scanning Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID) imaging of the magnetic fields and susceptibility in a number of thin film LBCO samples with doping in the vicinity of the 1/8th anomaly. Spatially resolved measurements of the critical temperatures of these samples do not show a pronounced depression at 1/8th doping. They do, however, exhibit strong, nearly linear modulations of the susceptibility (“striae”) of multiple samples with surprisingly long periods of 1 - 4 μm. Counterintuitively, vortices trap in positions of largest diamagnetic susceptibility in these striae. Given the rich interplay of different orders in this material system and its known sensitivity to epitaxial strain, we propose phase separation as a possible origin of these features and discuss scenarios in which that might arise.

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Davis, Samantha I. ^[1]; Ullah, Rahim R. ^[2]; Adamo, Carolina ^[3]; Watson, Christopher A. ^[4]; Kirtley, John R. ^[3]; Beasley, Malcolm R. ^[3]; Kivelson, Steven A. ^[5]; Moler, Kathryn A. ^[6]

Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Dept. of Physics
Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Dept. of Physics; Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics
Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Geballe Lab. for Advanced Materials
Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Dept. of Applied Physics; SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science (SIMES)
Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Dept. of Physics; SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science (SIMES)
Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Dept. of Physics, Dept. of Applied Physics and Geballe Lab. for Advanced Materials; SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science (SIMES)

Publication Date:: 2018-07-11

Research Org.:: SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Stanford Univ., CA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division; National Science Foundation (NSF); US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)

OSTI Identifier:: 1461813

Alternate Identifier(s):: OSTI ID: 1459649; OSTI ID: 1459739

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-76SF00515; ECCS-1542152; DMR-0957616; FA9550-09-1-0583

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Physical Review B

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 98; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9950

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; magnetic susceptibility; Meissner effect; pairing mechanisms; superfluid density; vortices in superconductors; high-temperature superconductors; SQUID; thin films

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                    Davis, Samantha I., Ullah, Rahim R., Adamo, Carolina, Watson, Christopher A., Kirtley, John R., Beasley, Malcolm R., Kivelson, Steven A., and Moler, Kathryn A. Spatially modulated susceptibility in thin film La2-xBaxCuO4.  United States: N. p., 2018. 
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                    Davis, Samantha I., Ullah, Rahim R., Adamo, Carolina, Watson, Christopher A., Kirtley, John R., Beasley, Malcolm R., Kivelson, Steven A., & Moler, Kathryn A. Spatially modulated susceptibility in thin film La2-xBaxCuO4.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.98.014506

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                    Davis, Samantha I., Ullah, Rahim R., Adamo, Carolina, Watson, Christopher A., Kirtley, John R., Beasley, Malcolm R., Kivelson, Steven A., and Moler, Kathryn A. Wed .  
"Spatially modulated susceptibility in thin film La2-xBaxCuO4".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.98.014506.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1461813.

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@article{osti_1461813,

  title        = {Spatially modulated susceptibility in thin film La2-xBaxCuO4},

  author       = {Davis, Samantha I. and Ullah, Rahim R. and Adamo, Carolina and Watson, Christopher A. and Kirtley, John R. and Beasley, Malcolm R. and Kivelson, Steven A. and Moler, Kathryn A.},

  abstractNote = {The high critical temperature superconductor Lanthanum Barium Copper Oxide (La2-xBaxCuO4 or LBCO) exhibits a strong anomaly in critical temperature at 1/8th doping, nematicity, and other interesting properties. Here, we report Scanning Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID) imaging of the magnetic fields and susceptibility in a number of thin film LBCO samples with doping in the vicinity of the 1/8th anomaly. Spatially resolved measurements of the critical temperatures of these samples do not show a pronounced depression at 1/8th doping. They do, however, exhibit strong, nearly linear modulations of the susceptibility (“striae”) of multiple samples with surprisingly long periods of 1 - 4 μm. Counterintuitively, vortices trap in positions of largest diamagnetic susceptibility in these striae. Given the rich interplay of different orders in this material system and its known sensitivity to epitaxial strain, we propose phase separation as a possible origin of these features and discuss scenarios in which that might arise.},

  doi          = {10.1103/physrevb.98.014506},

  journal      = {Physical Review B},

  number       = 1,

  volume       = 98,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {2018},

  month        = {7}

}

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Figure 1: SQUID Susceptometer with 0.1 µm radius pickup loop¹⁰(a) Schematic layout. The current leads, modulation coil, and field coil are labeled by I, M , and F.C. respectively. All but the pickup loop/field coil regions are shielded from external magnetic fields by superconducting layers. (b) Layout of the pickupmore »

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Exploring intertwined orders in cuprate superconductors journal, March 2015

Vortex-Line Pinning by Thickness Modulation of Superconducting Films journal, February 1974

Stripe order in superconducting La 2 − x Ba x CuO 4 ( 0 . 095 ⩽ x ⩽ 0 . 155 ) journal, March 2011

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Doubling the critical temperature of La1.9Sr0.1CuO4 using epitaxial strain journal, July 1998

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Stripe order, depinning, and fluctuations in La 1.875 Ba 0.125 CuO 4 and La 1.875 Ba 0.075 Sr 0.050 CuO 4 journal, September 2004

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Title: Spatially modulated susceptibility in thin film ${La}_{2 - x} {Ba}_{x} {CuO}_{4}$

Scanning superconducting quantum interference device susceptometry
journal, May 2001

Exploring intertwined orders in cuprate superconductors
journal, March 2015

Vortex-Line Pinning by Thickness Modulation of Superconducting Films
journal, February 1974

Stripe order in superconducting La $_{2 - x}$ Ba $_{x}$ CuO $_{4}$ ( $0.095 ⩽ x ⩽ 0.155$ )
journal, March 2011

Absence of $\frac{1}{8}$ anomaly in strained thin films of ${La}_{2 - x} {Ba}_{x} {CuO}_{4 + δ}$
journal, July 2000

Doubling the critical temperature of La1.9Sr0.1CuO4 using epitaxial strain
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Possible highT c superconductivity in the Ba?La?Cu?O system
journal, June 1986

Stripe order, depinning, and fluctuations in ${La}_{1.875} {Ba}_{0.125} {CuO}_{4}$ and ${La}_{1.875} {Ba}_{0.075} {Sr}_{0.050} {CuO}_{4}$
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