We report empirical comparisons of Cu K-edge indirect resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) spectra, taken at the Brillouin zone center, with optical dielectric loss functions measured in a number of copper oxides. The RIXS data are obtained for Bi$_2$CuO$_4$, CuGeO$_3$, Sr$_2$Cu$_3$O$_4$Cl$_2$, La$_2$CuO$_4$, and Sr$_2$CuO$_2$Cl$_2$, and analyzed by considering both incident and scattered photon resonances. An incident-energy-independent response function is then extracted. The dielectric loss functions, measured with spectroscopic ellipsometry, agree well with this RIXS response, especially in Bi$_2$CuO$_4$ and CuGeO$_3$.
A variety of copper tellurium oxide minerals are known, and many of them exhibit either unusual forms of magnetism, or potentially novel spin liquid behavior. Here, I review a number of the more interesting materials with a focus on their crystalline symmetry and, if known, the nature of their magnetism. Many of these exist (so far) in mineral form only, and most have yet to have their magnetic properties studied. This means a largely unexplored space of materials awaits our exploration.
Electronic States and Excitation Spectra of Copper Oxides with Ladder and/or Chain
最近报道了具有梯形和共边链的铜氧化物（Sr，Ca）$_{14}$ Cu $_{24}$ O $_{41}$在压力下的超导电性。为了更好地理解超导机制，弄清自掺杂空穴的分布是至关重要的。通过离子模型和精确对角化方法对样品的电导率进行分析，证实了Ca取代Sr后，自掺杂空穴从链状结构转移到了梯状结构。我们还研究了各种铜氧化物中共边链的电子态，并导出了有效哈密顿量。讨论了Cu离子间的磁相互作用和Zhang-Rice单重态的跳跃能与Cu-O-Cu键角的关系。
Averievite, Cu$_5$V$_2$O$_{10}$(CsCl), is an oxide mineral composed of Cu$^{2+}$ kagome layers sandwiched by Cu$^{2+}$-V$^{5+}$ honeycomb layers. We have synthesized this oxide and investigated its properties from ab initio calculations along with susceptibility and specific heat measurements. The data indicate a Curie-Weiss temperature of 185 K as well as long-range magnetic order at 24 K due to the significant interlayer coupling from the honeycomb copper ions. This order is suppressed by substituting these coppers by isoelectronic zinc, suggesting that Zn-substituted averievite is a promisi…
Dependence of Band Renormalization Effect on the Number of Copper-oxide Layers in Tl-based Copper-oxide Superconductor using Angle-resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy
Incommensurate spin density modulation in a copper-oxide chain compound with commensurate charge order
中子衍射已被用来确定的磁性结构的Na $_8$ Cu $_5$ O $_{10}$，一个化学计量的化合物，含有链的基础上共享边缘CuO $_4$斑块。该链掺杂有2/5孔每个Cu网站，并表现出长程相称的电荷秩序与发病远高于室温。低于$T_N = 23$ K，中子数据表明长程共线磁序与自旋密度调制，其传播矢量是相称的沿和不相称的垂直链。竞争链间交换相互作用进行了讨论，作为一个可能的起源的无公度磁秩序。
The structure of the joint phase diagram demonstrating high-$T_c$ superconductivity of copper oxides is studied on the basis of the theory of interaction-induced flat bands. Prerequisites of an associated topological rearrangement of the Landau state are established, and related non-Fermi-liquid (NFL) behavior of the normal states of cuprates is investigated. We focus on manifestations of this behavior in the electrical resistivity $ρ(T)$, especially the observed gradual crossover from normal-state $T$-linear behavior $ρ(T,x)=A_1(x)T$ at doping $x$ below the critical value $x_c^h$ for terminat…
Helicoidal magnetic order in a clean copper oxide spin chain compound
我们报告的磁化率，比热，和中子衍射测量NaCu $_2$ O $_2$，自旋1/2链化合物同构的LiCu $_2$ O $_2$，这已被广泛研究。在13 K以下，我们发现了一个长程有序的、无公度的磁螺旋态，其传播矢量与LiCu $_2$ O $_2$的传播矢量相似.与Li类似物相比，NaCu $_2$ O $_2$中的取代无序可忽略不计。因此，我们可以排除螺旋是由杂质诱导的，正如先前对LiCu $_2$ O $_2$的工作所声称的那样。一个自旋哈密顿与挫折长程交换相互作用提供了一个很好的描述有序状态和顺磁磁化率。
Present work demonstrates the formation of spin-orbital polarons in electron doped copper oxides, that arise due to doping-induced polarisation of the oxygen orbitals in the CuO$_2$ planes. The concept of such polarons is fundamentally different from previous interpretations. The novel aspect of spin-orbit polarons is best described by electrons becoming self-trapped in one-dimensional channels created by polarisation of the oxygen orbitals. The one-dimensional channels form elongated filaments with two possible orientations, along the diagonals of the elementary CuO$_2$ square plaquette. As t…
Structure with orbital degeneracy is unstable toward spontaneous distortion. Such orbital correlation usually has a much higher energy scale than spins, and therefore, magnetic transition takes place at a much lower temperature, almost independently from orbital ordering. However, when the energy scales of orbitals and spins meet, there is a possibility of spin-orbital entanglement that would stabilize novel ground state such as spin-orbital liquid and random singlet state. Here we review on such a novel spin-orbital magnetism found in the hexagonal perovskite oxide Ba$_3$CuSb$_2$O$_9$, which …
Recent experiments indicate that static stripe-like charge order is generic to the hole-doped copper oxide superconductors and competes with superconductivity. Here we show that a similar type of charge order is present in La$_{5/3}$Sr$_{1/3}$CoO$_4$, an insulating analogue of the copper oxide superconductors containing cobalt in place of copper. The stripe phase we have detected is accompanied by short-range, quasi-one-dimensional, antiferromagnetic order, and provides a natural explanation for the distinctive hourglass shape of the magnetic spectrum previously observed in neutron scattering …
We report on atomic-scale visualization of the structure of infinite-layer cuprate SrCuO2 thin films grown on Nb-doped SrTiO3 substrates by molecular beam epitaxy. In-situ scanning tunneling microscopy study reveals stoichiometric copper oxide (CuO2) plane with a 2 x 2 surface reconstruction, prompted by preferential clustering of four adjacent CuO2 plaquettes. By imaging the subsurface Sr atoms, intra-unit-cell rotational symmetry breaking is observed, which, together with the adjacent CuO2 clustering, can be well accounted for by a periodic up-down buckling of oxygen ions on the CuO2 plane. …
A great variety of novel phenomena occur when two-dimensional materials, such as graphene or transition metal dichalcogenides, are assembled into bilayers with a twist between individual layers. As a new application of this paradigm, we consider structures composed of two monolayer-thin $d$-wave superconductors with a twist angle $θ$ that can be realized by mechanically exfoliating van der Waals-bonded high-$T_c$ copper oxide materials, such as Bi$_2$Sr$_2$CaCu$_2$O$_{8+δ}$. On the basis of symmetry arguments and detailed microscopic modelling, we predict that for a range of twist angles in th…
