Materials preparation, single-crystal growth, and the phase diagram of the cuprate high-temperature superconductor La1.6-xNd0.4SrxCuO4
Abstract
One branch of the La-214 family of cuprate superconductors, La1.6-xNd0.4SrxCuO4 (NdLSCO), has been of significant and sustained interest, in large part because it displays the full complexity of the phase diagram for canonical hole-doped, high TC superconductivity, while also displaying relatively low superconducting critical temperatures. The low superconducting TC’s imply that experimentally accessible magnetic fields can suppress the superconductivity to zero temperature. In particular, this has enabled various transport and thermodynamic studies of the T = 0 ground state in Nd-LSCO, free of superconductivity, across the critical doping p* = 0.23 where the pseudogap phase ends. The strong dependence of its superconducting properties on its crystal symmetry has itself motivated careful studies of the Nd-LSCO structural phase diagram. This paper provides a systematic study and summary of the materials preparation and characterization of both single crystal and polycrystalline samples of Nd-LSCO. Single-phase polycrystalline samples with x spanning the range from 0.01 to 0.40 have been synthesized, and large single crystals of La1.6-xNd0.4SrxCuO4 for select x across the region (0.07, 0.12, 0.17, 0.19, 0.225, 0.24, and 0.26) were grown by the optical floating zone method. Furthermore, systematic neutron and X-ray diffraction studies on these samples were performed at both low andmore »
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- McMaster Univ., Hamilton, ON (Canada); Brockhouse Inst. for Materials Research, Hamilton, ON (Canada); Jozef Stefan Inst., Ljubljana (Slovenia)
- McMaster Univ., Hamilton, ON (Canada)
- Brockhouse Inst. for Materials Research, Hamilton, ON (Canada); McMaster Univ., Hamilton, ON (Canada)
- Univ. de Sherbrooke, QC (Canada). Inst. Quantique
- Brockhouse Inst. for Materials Research, Hamilton, ON (Canada)
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Univ. de Sherbrooke, QC (Canada). Inst. Quantique; Canadian Inst. for Advanced Research, Toronto, ON (Canada)
- Brockhouse Inst. for Materials Research, Hamilton, ON (Canada); McMaster Univ., Hamilton, ON (Canada); Canadian Inst. for Advanced Research, Toronto, ON (Canada)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1787225
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review Materials
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 4; Journal Issue: 11; Journal ID: ISSN 2475-9953
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; magnetism; superconductivity; superconductors; chemical synthesis; crystal growth; neutron scattering
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Dragomir, Mirela, Ma, Qianli, Clancy, J. Patrick, Ataei, Amirreza, Dube, Paul A., Sharma, Sudarshan, Huq, Ashfia, Dabkowska, Hanna A., Taillefer, Louis, and Gaulin, Bruce D. Materials preparation, single-crystal growth, and the phase diagram of the cuprate high-temperature superconductor La1.6-xNd0.4SrxCuO4. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1103/physrevmaterials.4.114801.
Dragomir, Mirela, Ma, Qianli, Clancy, J. Patrick, Ataei, Amirreza, Dube, Paul A., Sharma, Sudarshan, Huq, Ashfia, Dabkowska, Hanna A., Taillefer, Louis, & Gaulin, Bruce D. Materials preparation, single-crystal growth, and the phase diagram of the cuprate high-temperature superconductor La1.6-xNd0.4SrxCuO4. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevmaterials.4.114801
Dragomir, Mirela, Ma, Qianli, Clancy, J. Patrick, Ataei, Amirreza, Dube, Paul A., Sharma, Sudarshan, Huq, Ashfia, Dabkowska, Hanna A., Taillefer, Louis, and Gaulin, Bruce D. Wed .
"Materials preparation, single-crystal growth, and the phase diagram of the cuprate high-temperature superconductor La1.6-xNd0.4SrxCuO4". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevmaterials.4.114801. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1787225.
@article{osti_1787225,
title = {Materials preparation, single-crystal growth, and the phase diagram of the cuprate high-temperature superconductor La1.6-xNd0.4SrxCuO4},
author = {Dragomir, Mirela and Ma, Qianli and Clancy, J. Patrick and Ataei, Amirreza and Dube, Paul A. and Sharma, Sudarshan and Huq, Ashfia and Dabkowska, Hanna A. and Taillefer, Louis and Gaulin, Bruce D.},
abstractNote = {One branch of the La-214 family of cuprate superconductors, La1.6-xNd0.4SrxCuO4 (NdLSCO), has been of significant and sustained interest, in large part because it displays the full complexity of the phase diagram for canonical hole-doped, high TC superconductivity, while also displaying relatively low superconducting critical temperatures. The low superconducting TC’s imply that experimentally accessible magnetic fields can suppress the superconductivity to zero temperature. In particular, this has enabled various transport and thermodynamic studies of the T = 0 ground state in Nd-LSCO, free of superconductivity, across the critical doping p* = 0.23 where the pseudogap phase ends. The strong dependence of its superconducting properties on its crystal symmetry has itself motivated careful studies of the Nd-LSCO structural phase diagram. This paper provides a systematic study and summary of the materials preparation and characterization of both single crystal and polycrystalline samples of Nd-LSCO. Single-phase polycrystalline samples with x spanning the range from 0.01 to 0.40 have been synthesized, and large single crystals of La1.6-xNd0.4SrxCuO4 for select x across the region (0.07, 0.12, 0.17, 0.19, 0.225, 0.24, and 0.26) were grown by the optical floating zone method. Furthermore, systematic neutron and X-ray diffraction studies on these samples were performed at both low and room temperatures, 10 K and 300 K, respectively. These studies allowed us to follow the various structural phase transitions and propose an updated structural phase diagram for NdLSCO. In particular, we found that the low-temperature tetragonal (LTT) phase ends at a critical doping pLTT = 0.255±0.005, clearly separated from p*.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevmaterials.4.114801},
journal = {Physical Review Materials},
number = 11,
volume = 4,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Nov 04 00:00:00 EST 2020},
month = {Wed Nov 04 00:00:00 EST 2020}
}
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