Emerging Diluted Ferromagnetism in High-Tc Superconductors Driven by Point Defect Clusters

Gazquez, Jaume; Guzman, Roger.; Mishra, Rohan; Bartolome, Elena; Salafranca, Juan; Magen, Cesar; Varela, Maria; Coll, Mariona; Palau, Anna; Valvidares, S. Manuel; Gargiani, Pierluigi; Pellegrin, Eric; Herrero-Martin, Javier; Pennycook, Stephen J.; Pantelides, Sokrates T.; Puig, Teresa; Obradors, Xavier

doi:10.1002/advs.201500295

Title: Emerging Diluted Ferromagnetism in High-T_c Superconductors Driven by Point Defect Clusters

Journal Article · Tue Mar 15 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Advanced Science

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.201500295· OSTI ID:1461628

Gazquez, Jaume ^[1]; Guzman, Roger. ^[1]; Mishra, Rohan ^[2]; Bartolome, Elena ^[3]; Salafranca, Juan ^[4]; Magen, Cesar ^[5]; Varela, Maria ^[4]; Coll, Mariona ^[1]; Palau, Anna ^[1]; Valvidares, S. Manuel ^[6]; Gargiani, Pierluigi ^[6]; Pellegrin, Eric ^[6]; Herrero-Martin, Javier ^[6]; Pennycook, Stephen J. ^[7]; Pantelides, Sokrates T. ^[8]; Puig, Teresa ^[1]; Obradors, Xavier ^[1]

Institut de Ciencia de Materials de Barcelona, Barcelona (Spain)
Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Washington Univ. St. Louis, St. Louis, MO (United States)
Escola Univ. Salesiana de Sarria, Barcelona (Spain)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Univ. Complutense de Madrid, Madrid (Spain)
Univ. de Zaragoza, Zaragoza (Spain)
ALBA Synchrotron Light Source, Cerdanyola del Valles (Spain)
Univ. of Singapore, (Singapore)
Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Here, defects in ceramic materials are generally seen as detrimental to their functionality and applicability. Yet, in some complex oxides, defects present an opportunity to enhance some of their properties or even lead to the discovery of exciting physics, particularly in the presence of strong correlations. A paradigmatic case is the high–temperature superconductor YBa₂Cu₃O_7–δ (Y123), in which nanoscale defects play an important role as they can immobilize quantized magnetic flux vortices. Here previously unforeseen point defects buried in Y123 thin films that lead to the formation of ferromagnetic clusters embedded within the superconductor are unveiled. Aberration–corrected scanning transmission microscopy has been used for exploring, on a single unit–cell level, the structure and chemistry resulting from these complex point defects, along with density functional theory calculations, for providing new insights about their nature including an unexpected defect–driven ferromagnetism, and X–ray magnetic circular dichroism for bearing evidence of Cu magnetic moments that align ferromagnetically even below the superconducting critical temperature to form a dilute system of magnetic clusters associated with the point defects.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC); Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: FG02-09ER46554; AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1461628

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1597768

Journal Information:: Advanced Science, Vol. 3, Issue 6; ISSN 2198-3844

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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