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Title: Generic character of charge and spin density waves in superconducting cuprates

Abstract

Charge density waves (CDWs) have been observed in nearly all families of copper-oxide superconductors. But the behavior of these phases across different families has been perplexing. In La-based cuprates, the CDW wavevector is an increasing function of doping, exhibiting the so-called Yamada behavior, while in Y- and Bi-based materials the behavior is the opposite. Here, we report a combined resonant soft X-ray scattering (RSXS) and neutron scattering study of charge and spin density waves in isotopically enriched La1.8–xEu0.2SrxCuO4 over a range of doping 0.07 ≤ x ≤ 0.20. In this work, we find that the CDW amplitude is temperature independent and develops well above experimentally accessible temperatures. Further, the CDW wavevector shows a nonmonotonic temperature dependence, exhibiting Yamada behavior at low temperature with a sudden change occurring near the spin ordering temperature. We describe these observations using a Landau–Ginzburg theory for an incommensurate CDW in a metallic system with a finite charge compressibility and spin-CDW coupling. Extrapolating to high temperature, where the CDW amplitude is small and spin order is absent, our analysis predicts a decreasing wavevector with doping, similar to Y and Bi cuprates. Our study suggests that CDW order in all families of cuprates forms by a commonmore » mechanism.« less

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  1. Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
  2. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL)
  3. National Inst. of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder, CO (United States)
  4. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  5. Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF); Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
OSTI Identifier:
1877679
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1892422; OSTI ID: 1958763
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-76SF00515; FG02-06ER46285; SC0012368; DMR-1725401; GBMF9452; GBMF4305; GMBF8691; AC05-00OR22725
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 119; Journal Issue: 15; Journal ID: ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher:
National Academy of Sciences
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; charge density waves; spin density waves; cuprates; high-temperature superconductivity; X-ray scattering, charge density waves, cuprates

Citation Formats

Lee, Sangjun, Huang, Edwin W., Johnson, Thomas A., Guo, Xuefei, Husain, Ali A., Mitrano, Matteo, Lu, Kannan, Zakrzewski, Alexander V., de la Peña, Gilberto A., Peng, Yingying, Huang, Hai, Lee, Sang-Jun, Jang, Hoyoung, Lee, Jun-Sik, Joe, Young Il, Doriese, William B., Szypryt, Paul, Swetz, Daniel S., Chi, Songxue, Aczel, Adam A., MacDougall, Gregory J., Kivelson, Steven A., Fradkin, Eduardo, and Abbamonte, Peter. Generic character of charge and spin density waves in superconducting cuprates. United States: N. p., 2022. Web. doi:10.1073/pnas.2119429119.
Lee, Sangjun, Huang, Edwin W., Johnson, Thomas A., Guo, Xuefei, Husain, Ali A., Mitrano, Matteo, Lu, Kannan, Zakrzewski, Alexander V., de la Peña, Gilberto A., Peng, Yingying, Huang, Hai, Lee, Sang-Jun, Jang, Hoyoung, Lee, Jun-Sik, Joe, Young Il, Doriese, William B., Szypryt, Paul, Swetz, Daniel S., Chi, Songxue, Aczel, Adam A., MacDougall, Gregory J., Kivelson, Steven A., Fradkin, Eduardo, & Abbamonte, Peter. Generic character of charge and spin density waves in superconducting cuprates. United States. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2119429119
Lee, Sangjun, Huang, Edwin W., Johnson, Thomas A., Guo, Xuefei, Husain, Ali A., Mitrano, Matteo, Lu, Kannan, Zakrzewski, Alexander V., de la Peña, Gilberto A., Peng, Yingying, Huang, Hai, Lee, Sang-Jun, Jang, Hoyoung, Lee, Jun-Sik, Joe, Young Il, Doriese, William B., Szypryt, Paul, Swetz, Daniel S., Chi, Songxue, Aczel, Adam A., MacDougall, Gregory J., Kivelson, Steven A., Fradkin, Eduardo, and Abbamonte, Peter. Mon . "Generic character of charge and spin density waves in superconducting cuprates". United States. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2119429119. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1877679.
@article{osti_1877679,
title = {Generic character of charge and spin density waves in superconducting cuprates},
author = {Lee, Sangjun and Huang, Edwin W. and Johnson, Thomas A. and Guo, Xuefei and Husain, Ali A. and Mitrano, Matteo and Lu, Kannan and Zakrzewski, Alexander V. and de la Peña, Gilberto A. and Peng, Yingying and Huang, Hai and Lee, Sang-Jun and Jang, Hoyoung and Lee, Jun-Sik and Joe, Young Il and Doriese, William B. and Szypryt, Paul and Swetz, Daniel S. and Chi, Songxue and Aczel, Adam A. and MacDougall, Gregory J. and Kivelson, Steven A. and Fradkin, Eduardo and Abbamonte, Peter},
abstractNote = {Charge density waves (CDWs) have been observed in nearly all families of copper-oxide superconductors. But the behavior of these phases across different families has been perplexing. In La-based cuprates, the CDW wavevector is an increasing function of doping, exhibiting the so-called Yamada behavior, while in Y- and Bi-based materials the behavior is the opposite. Here, we report a combined resonant soft X-ray scattering (RSXS) and neutron scattering study of charge and spin density waves in isotopically enriched La1.8–xEu0.2SrxCuO4 over a range of doping 0.07 ≤ x ≤ 0.20. In this work, we find that the CDW amplitude is temperature independent and develops well above experimentally accessible temperatures. Further, the CDW wavevector shows a nonmonotonic temperature dependence, exhibiting Yamada behavior at low temperature with a sudden change occurring near the spin ordering temperature. We describe these observations using a Landau–Ginzburg theory for an incommensurate CDW in a metallic system with a finite charge compressibility and spin-CDW coupling. Extrapolating to high temperature, where the CDW amplitude is small and spin order is absent, our analysis predicts a decreasing wavevector with doping, similar to Y and Bi cuprates. Our study suggests that CDW order in all families of cuprates forms by a common mechanism.},
doi = {10.1073/pnas.2119429119},
journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America},
number = 15,
volume = 119,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Apr 04 00:00:00 EDT 2022},
month = {Mon Apr 04 00:00:00 EDT 2022}
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