Three-dimensional collective charge excitations in electron-doped copper oxide superconductors

Hepting, M.; Chaix, L.; Huang, E. W.; Fumagalli, R.; Peng, Y. Y.; Moritz, B.; Kummer, K.; Brookes, N. B.; Lee, W. C.; Hashimoto, M.; Sarkar, T.; He, J. -F.; Rotundu, C. R.; Lee, Y. S.; Greene, R. L.; Braicovich, L.; Ghiringhelli, G.; Shen, Z. X.; Devereaux, T. P.; Lee, W. S.

doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0648-3

Title: Three-dimensional collective charge excitations in electron-doped copper oxide superconductors

Journal Article · Wed Oct 31 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · Nature (London)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0648-3· OSTI ID:1483389

Hepting, M. ^[1]; Chaix, L. ^[1]; Huang, E. W. ^[2]; Fumagalli, R. ^[3]; Peng, Y. Y. ^[3]; Moritz, B. ^[1]; Kummer, K. ^[4]; Brookes, N. B. ^[4]; Lee, W. C. ^[5]; Hashimoto, M. ^[6]; Sarkar, T. ^[7]; He, J. -F. ^[1]; Rotundu, C. R. ^[1]; Lee, Y. S. ^[1]; Greene, R. L. ^[7]; Braicovich, L. ^[8]; Ghiringhelli, G. ^[9]; Shen, Z. X. ^[1]; Devereaux, T. P. ^[1]; Lee, W. S. ^[1]

SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science (SIMES)
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
Politecnico di Milano, Milano (Italy). Dipartimento di Fisica
European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), Grenoble (France)
Binghamton Univ., NY (United States). Dept. of Physics
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL)
Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States). Center for Nanophysics and Advanced Materials, Dept. of Physics
Politecnico di Milano, Milano (Italy). Dipartimento di Fisica; European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), Grenoble (France)
Politecnico di Milano, Milano (Italy). Dipartimento di Fisica; Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche-Istituto SPIN, Genova (Italy)

High-temperature copper oxide superconductors consist of stacked CuO₂ planes, with electronic band structures and magnetic excitations that are primarily two-dimensional1,2, but with superconducting coherence that is three-dimensional. This dichotomy highlights the importance of out-of-plane charge dynamics, which has been found to be incoherent in the normal state within the limited range of momenta accessible by optics. Here in this study, we use resonant inelastic X-ray scattering to explore the charge dynamics across all three dimensions of the Brillouin zone. Polarization analysis of recently discovered collective excitations (modes) in electron-doped copper oxides reveals their charge origin, that is, without mixing with magnetic components. The excitations disperse along both the in-plane and out-of-plane directions, revealing its three-dimensional nature. The periodicity of the out-of-plane dispersion corresponds to the distance between neighbouring CuO₂ planes rather than to the crystallographic c-axis lattice constant, suggesting that the interplane Coulomb interaction is responsible for the coherent out-of-plane charge dynamics. The observed properties are hallmarks of the long-sought ‘acoustic plasmon’, which is a branch of distinct charge collective modes predicted for layered systems and argued to play a substantial part in mediating high-temperature superconductivity.

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Research Organization:: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division; National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-76SF00515; AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1483389

Journal Information:: Nature (London), Vol. 563, Issue 7731; ISSN 0028-0836

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