Scaling behavior of low-temperature orthorhombic domains in the prototypical high-temperature superconductor
Abstract
Structural symmetry breaking and recovery in condensed-matter systems are closely related to exotic physical properties such as superconductivity (SC), magnetism, spin density waves, and charge density waves (CDWs). The interplay between different order parameters is intricate and often subject to intense debate, as in the case of CDW order and superconductivity. In La1.875Ba0.125CuO4 (LBCO), the low-temperature structural domain walls are hypothesized as nanometer-scale pinning sites for the CDWs. Coherent x-ray diffraction techniques have been employed here to visualize the domain structures associated with these symmetry changes directly during phase transition. We have pushed Bragg coherent diffractive imaging (BCDI) into the cryogenic regime where most phase transitions in quantum materials reside. Utilizing BCDI, we image the structural evolution of LBCO microcrystal samples during the high-temperature tetragonal to low-temperature orthorhombic (LTO) phase transition. Our results show the formation of LTO domains close to the transition temperature and how the domain size decreases with temperature. The number of domains follows the secondary order parameter (or orthorhombic strain) measurement with a critical exponent that is consistent with the three-dimensional universality class.
- Authors:
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- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States)
- Univ. College London (United Kingdom)
- Advanced Photon Source, Argonne, IL (United States)
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Univ. College London (United Kingdom)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1595695
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1599525; OSTI ID: 1604976
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-213585-2020-JAAM; BNL-213690-2020-JAAM
Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9950; PRBMDO; TRN: US2101068
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0012704; AC02-06CH11357; NSF-DMR 9724294
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review B
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 101; Journal Issue: 5; 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; Structural phase transition; High-temperature superconductors; Coherent X-ray scattering; Landau-Ginzburg theory; Coherent X-ray Diffraction; Domains and Domain walls; Orthorhombic distortion; Phase retrival
Citation Formats
Assefa, T. A., Cao, Y., Diao, J., Harder, R. J., Cha, W., Kisslinger, K., Gu, G. D., Tranquada, J. M., Dean, M. P. M., and Robinson, I. K. Scaling behavior of low-temperature orthorhombic domains in the prototypical high-temperature superconductor La1.875Ba0.125CuO4. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.101.054104.
Assefa, T. A., Cao, Y., Diao, J., Harder, R. J., Cha, W., Kisslinger, K., Gu, G. D., Tranquada, J. M., Dean, M. P. M., & Robinson, I. K. Scaling behavior of low-temperature orthorhombic domains in the prototypical high-temperature superconductor La1.875Ba0.125CuO4. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.101.054104
Assefa, T. A., Cao, Y., Diao, J., Harder, R. J., Cha, W., Kisslinger, K., Gu, G. D., Tranquada, J. M., Dean, M. P. M., and Robinson, I. K. Tue .
"Scaling behavior of low-temperature orthorhombic domains in the prototypical high-temperature superconductor La1.875Ba0.125CuO4". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.101.054104. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1595695.
@article{osti_1595695,
title = {Scaling behavior of low-temperature orthorhombic domains in the prototypical high-temperature superconductor La1.875Ba0.125CuO4},
author = {Assefa, T. A. and Cao, Y. and Diao, J. and Harder, R. J. and Cha, W. and Kisslinger, K. and Gu, G. D. and Tranquada, J. M. and Dean, M. P. M. and Robinson, I. K.},
abstractNote = {Structural symmetry breaking and recovery in condensed-matter systems are closely related to exotic physical properties such as superconductivity (SC), magnetism, spin density waves, and charge density waves (CDWs). The interplay between different order parameters is intricate and often subject to intense debate, as in the case of CDW order and superconductivity. In La1.875Ba0.125CuO4 (LBCO), the low-temperature structural domain walls are hypothesized as nanometer-scale pinning sites for the CDWs. Coherent x-ray diffraction techniques have been employed here to visualize the domain structures associated with these symmetry changes directly during phase transition. We have pushed Bragg coherent diffractive imaging (BCDI) into the cryogenic regime where most phase transitions in quantum materials reside. Utilizing BCDI, we image the structural evolution of LBCO microcrystal samples during the high-temperature tetragonal to low-temperature orthorhombic (LTO) phase transition. Our results show the formation of LTO domains close to the transition temperature and how the domain size decreases with temperature. The number of domains follows the secondary order parameter (or orthorhombic strain) measurement with a critical exponent that is consistent with the three-dimensional universality class.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevB.101.054104},
journal = {Physical Review B},
number = 5,
volume = 101,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Feb 11 00:00:00 EST 2020},
month = {Tue Feb 11 00:00:00 EST 2020}
}
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