几种铜酸盐的系统拉曼光谱研究(YBa $_{\rm 2}$ Cu $_{\rm 3}$ O $_{\rm x}$、YBa $_{\rm 2}$ Cu $_{\rm 4}$ O $_{\rm 8}$或Bi $_{\rm 2}$ Sr $_{\rm 2}$ CaCu $_{\rm 2}$ O $_{\rm 8}$)已经表明,在最佳掺杂下,化合物处于晶格不稳定性的边缘;一旦通过掺杂或施加外部流体静压超过该水平,转变温度的变化伴随着光谱改变。有强烈的迹象表明,T $_{\rm c}$的减少与分离成纳米级相,其中涉及CuO $_{\rm 2}$平面的氧原子。在这项工作中,修改与掺杂的La $_{\rm 2-x}$ Sr $_{\rm x}$ CuO $_{\rm 4}$化合物的拉曼光谱,这表明自旋或电荷有序耦合在整个掺杂区域的晶格畸变。
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Systematic Raman studies on several cuprates (YBa$_{\rm 2}$Cu$_{\rm 3}$O$_{\rm x}$, YBa$_{\rm 2}$Cu$_{\rm 4}$O$_{\rm 8}$ or Bi$_{\rm 2}$Sr$_{\rm 2}$CaCu$_{\rm 2}$O$_{\rm 8}$) have shown that at optimal doping the compounds are at the edge of lattice instability; once this level is exceeded, by means of doping or applying external hydrostatic pressure, the changes in the transition temperature are accompanied by spectral modifications. There are strong indications that the reduction in T$_{\rm c}$ is correlated with a separation into nanoscale phases, which involve the oxygen atoms of the CuO$_{\rm 2}$ planes. In this work, modifications with doping in the Raman spectra of the La$_{\rm 2-x}$Sr$_{\rm x}$CuO$_{\rm 4}$ compound are presented, which show that spin or charge ordering is coupled with lattice distortions in the whole doping region.
We report the first observation of superconductivity in heterostructure consisting of an insulating ferroelectric film (Ba$_{0.8}$Sr$_{0.2}$TiO$_3$) grown on an insulating parent compound of La$_2$CuO$_4$ with [001] orientation. The heterostructure was prepared by magnetron sputtering on a non-atomically-flat surface with inhomogeneities of the order of 1-2 nm. The measured superconducting transition temperature T$_c$ is about 30K. We have shown that superconductivity is confined near the interface region. Application of a weak magnetic field perpendicular to the interface leads to the appeara…
We propose two possible new compounds, Ba$_2$CuO$_2$Fe$_2$As$_2$ and K$_2$CuO$_2$Fe$_2$Se$_2$, which hybridize the building blocks of two high temperature superconductors, cuprates and iron-based superconductors. These compounds consist of square CuO$_2$ layers and antifluorite-type Fe$_2$X$_2$ (X=As,Se) layers separated by Ba/K. The calculations of binding energies and phonon spectrums indicate that they are dynamically stable, which ensures that they may be experimentally synthesized. The Fermi surfaces and electronic structures of the two compounds inherit the characteristics of both cuprat…
By means of resonant inelastic x-ray scattering at the Cu L$_3$ edge, we measured the spin wave dispersion along $\langle$100$\rangle$ and $\langle$110$\rangle$ in the undoped cuprate Ca$_2$CuO$_2$Cl$_2$. The data yields a reliable estimate of the superexchange parameter $J$ = 135 $\pm$ 4 meV using a classical spin-1/2 2D Heisenberg model with nearest-neighbor interactions and including quantum fluctuations. Including further exchange interactions increases the estimate to $J$ = 141 meV. The 40 meV dispersion between the magnetic Brillouin zone boundary points (1/2,\,0) and (1/4,\,1/4) indicat…
The parent compounds of the high-temperature cuprate superconductors are Mott insulators. It has been generally agreed that understanding the physics of the doped Mott insulators is essential to understanding the mechanism of high temperature superconductivity. A natural starting point is to elucidate the basic electronic structure of the parent compound. Here we report comprehensive high resolution angle-resolved photoemission measurements on Ca$_2$CuO$_2$Cl$_2$, a Mott insulator and a prototypical parent compound of the cuprates. Multiple underlying Fermi surface sheets are revealed for the …
The electronic states near the Fermi level of recently discovered superconductor Ba$_2$CuO$_{4-δ}$ consist primarily of the Cu $d_{x^2-y^2}$ and $d_{3z^2-r^2}$ orbitals. We investigate the electronic correlation effect and the orbital polarization of an effective two-orbital Hubbard model mimicking the low-energy physics of Ba$_2$CuO$_{4-δ}$ in the hole-rich regime by utilizing the dynamical mean-field theory with the Lanczos method as the impurity solver. We find that the hole-overdoped Ba$_2$CuO$_{4-δ}$ with $3d^8$ (Cu$^{3+}$) is in the orbital-selective Mott phase (OSMP) at half-filling, an…
Observation of an unconventional metal-insulator transition in overdoped CuO_2 compounds
用非弹性光散射方法研究了$_2$ $_2$ $_2$ O $_{8+δ}$在较宽掺杂范围内正常态的电子动力学.电子弛豫的各向异性很强,不能单独用单粒子性质来解释。结果强烈表明存在一个非常规的量子临界金属-绝缘体过渡的“热”(波节)准粒子成为绝缘,而“冷”(节)准粒子保持金属。一种现象学的发展,它允许一个定量的拉曼结果的理解,并提供了一个场景,链接单和多粒子的属性。
Ab initio low-energy effective Hamiltonians of two typical high-temperature copper-oxide superconductors, whose mother compounds are La$_2$CuO$_4$ and HgBa$_2$CuO$_4$, are derived by utilizing the multi-scale ab initio scheme for correlated electrons (MACE). The effective Hamiltonians obtained in the present study serve as platforms of future studies to accurately solve the low-energy effective Hamiltonians beyond the density functional theory. It allows further study on the superconducting mechanism from the first principles and quantitative basis without adjustable parameters not only for th…
Nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate and nonmagnetic pair-breaking effect in electron-doped Pr_{0.91}LaCe_{0.09}CuO_{4-y}: Signature of highly anisotropic s-wave gap
We use resonant inelastic x-ray scattering to investigate charge-stripe correlations in La$_{1.675}$Eu$_{0.2}$Sr$_{0.125}$CuO$_4$. By differentiating elastic from inelastic scattering, it is demonstrated that charge-stripe correlations precede both the structural low-temperature tetragonal phase and the transport-defined pseudogap onset. The scattering peak amplitude from charge stripes decays approximately as $T^{-2}$ towards our detection limit. The in-plane integrated intensity, however, remains roughly temperature independent. Therefore, although the incommensurability shows a remarkably l…
Superconductivity in the Infinite Layer Compound CaCuO2
研究了电场效应掺杂的无限层状化合物CaCuO_2的超导电性。有人认为,在超导CuO 2层,旁边的绝缘Al 2 O 3覆盖层,铜离子的氧的配位是金字塔形的,而不是正方形平面。这一观点源于现有的NEXAFS和HRETM结果的分析,以及化学方面的考虑,并且主要针对空穴掺杂但也针对电子掺杂区域的相位图进行讨论。
Spin excitations of layered copper oxide show various characteristic features, depending on the carrier concentration. In this study, we conducted inelastic neutron scattering (INS) measurements on La$_{2-x}$Sr$_{x}$CuO$_4$ (LSCO), with $x$ = 0, 0.075, 0.18, and 0.30 and La$_{2-x}$Sr$_{x}$NiO$_4$ (LSNO) with 1/3, to clarify the origin of the intensity enhancement in the excitation spectrum of LSCO at the energy ($ω$) of 16--19 meV [Phys. Rev. B {\bf 91}, 224404 (2015), {\it ibid}. {\bf 93}, 094416 (2016)]. We confirmed the presence of a peak-structure in the $ω$-dependence of the local spin su…
Stripe motion in CuO{2} planes of Y{1-x}Pr{x}Ba{2}Cu{3}O{7} as seen from the Cu(2) NQR
Pulsed NQR at the frequencies of 28-33 MHz has been used to study copper NQR spectra in YBa{2}Cu{3}O{7}, TmBa{2}Cu{3}O{7} and Y{0.9}Pr{0.1}Ba{2}Cu{3}O{7} compounds at temperatures of 4.2-200K. Quantitative analysis of the spectra has shown that the "plane" Cu(2) spectra shape is well described by using a model of 1D correlations of charge and spin distribution in CuO{2} planes (stripe correlations). In the undoped superconductors the charge-spin stripe structure moves fast in the CuO{2} planes, but doping the YBa{2}Cu{3}O{7} lattice with praseodymium slows this motion down.
Doping dependence of the vortex glass and sublimation transitions in the high-$T_{c}$ superconductor La$_{2-x}$Sr$_{x}$CuO$_{4}$ as determined from macroscopic measurements
磁化强度和交流磁化率测量用于表征高温铜酸盐超导体La $_{2-x}$ Sr $_{x}$ CuO $_{4}$在大范围的掺杂(0.075 $\leq x\leq$ 0.20)的混合相。研究了高磁场(垂直于$CuO_2$面施加8特斯拉)下的一级涡旋晶格相变线$H_{FOT}(T)$、上临界场$H_{c2}(T)$和第二峰$H_{sp}(T)$。我们的研究结果揭示了一个强大的掺杂依赖的磁相图,这主要可以解释与欠掺杂的各向异性增加。在我们的解释,第一阶涡晶格相变是由于升华(而不是熔化)的涡晶格成气体的煎饼涡,而第二个峰值是有关的过渡到一个更无序的涡玻璃态。
Comparison of charge modulations in La$_{1.875}$Ba$_{0.125}$CuO$_4$ and YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{6.6}$
最近在(Y,Nd)Ba $_2$ Cu $_3$ O $_{6+x}$ [Ghiringhelli { \em et al.} Science 337,821(2013)]。在这里,我们报告铜$L_3$边缘软X射线散射研究比较晶格调制与电荷调制在YBa $_2$铜$_3$ O $_{6.6}$与众所周知的电荷和自旋条纹顺序在La $_{1.875}$ Ba $_{0.125}$ CuO $_4$。我们发现,在这两种情况下,CuO $_2$平面上的关联长度都是各向同性的,La $_{1.875}$ Ba $_{0.125}$ CuO $_4$的关联长度是$259 \pm 9$,YBa $_2$ Cu $_3$ O $_{6.6}$的关联长度是$55 \pm 15$.假设两种化合物中的电荷有序存在弱的面间关联,我们得出结论:La $_{1.875}$ Ba $_{0.125}$ CuO $_4$和YBa $_2$ Cu $_3$ O $_{6.6}$中的晶格调制的有序参数具有相同的数量级.
For the recently discovered cuprate superconductor $\mathrm{Ba_{2}CuO_{3+δ}}$, we propose a lattice structure which resembles the model considered by Lieb to represent the vastly oxygen-deficient material. We first investigate the stability of the Lieb-lattice structure, and then construct a multiorbital Hubbard model based on first-principles calculation. By applying the fluctuation-exchange approximation to the model and solving the linearized Eliashberg equation, we show that $s$-wave and $d$-wave pairings closely compete with each other, and, more interestingly, that the intra-orbital and …
Measurements of the $^{17}$O nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) quadrupolar spectrum of apical oxygen in HgBa$_{2}$CuO$_{4+δ}$ were performed over a range of magnetic fields from 6.4 to 30\,T in the superconducting state. Oxygen isotope exchanged single crystals were investigated with doping corresponding to superconducting transition temperatures from 74\,K underdoped, to 78\,K overdoped. The apical oxygen site was chosen since its NMR spectrum has narrow quadrupolar satellites that are well separated from any other resonance. Non-vortex contributions to the spectra can be deconvolved in the ti…
We used femtosecond optical pump-probe spectroscopy to study the photoinduced change in reflectivity of thin films of the electron-doped cuprate La$_{2-x}$Ce$_x$CuO$_4$ (LCCO) with dopings of x$=$0.08 (underdoped) and x$=$0.11 (optimally doped). Above T$_c$, we observe fluence-dependent relaxation rates which onset at a similar temperature that transport measurements first see signatures of antiferromagnetic correlations. Upon suppressing superconductivity with a magnetic field, it is found that the fluence and temperature dependence of relaxation rates is consistent with bimolecular recombina…
We study magnetotransport properties of the electron-doped superconductor Pr$_{2-x}$Ce$_x$CuO$_{4\pmδ}$ with $x$ = 0.14 in magnetic fields up to 92~T, and observe Shubnikov de-Haas magnetic quantum oscillations. The oscillations display a single frequency $F$=255$\pm$10~T, indicating a small Fermi pocket that is $\sim$~1\% of the two-dimensional Brillouin zone and consistent with a Fermi surface reconstructed from the large hole-like cylinder predicted for these layered materials. Despite the low nominal doping, all electronic properties including the effective mass and Hall effect are consist…
Layered copper oxides have highest superconducting transition temperatures at ambient pressure. Its mechanism remains a grand challenge in condensed matter physics. The essential physics lying in 2-dimensional copper-oxygen layers is well described by a single band Hubbard model or its strong coupling limit t-J model in 2-dimensional square lattice. Recently discovered high temperature superconductor Ba$_2$CuO$_{3+δ}$ with $δ\sim 0.2$ has different crystal structure with large portion of in-plane oxygen vacancies. We observe that an oxygen vacancy breaks the bond of its two neighboring copper …
The nature of the superconducting (SC) precursor in the cuprates has been the subject of intense interest, with profound implications for both the normal and the SC states. Different experimental probes have led to vastly disparate conclusions on the temperature range of superconducting fluctuations. The main challenges have been to separate the SC response from complex normal-state behavior, and to distinguish the underlying behavior of the quintessential CuO$_{2}$ layers from compound-specific properties. Here we reveal remarkably simple and universal behavior of the SC precursor using torqu…
The nanometer scale lattice deformation brought about by the dopants in high temperature superconducting cuprate La$_{2-x}$Sr$_x$CuO$_4$(x=0.08) was investigated by measuring the associated X-ray diffuse scattering around multiple Bragg peaks. A characteristic diffuse scattering pattern was observed, which can be well described by continuum elastic theory. With the fitted dipole force parameters, the acoustic type lattice deformation pattern was re-constructed and found to be of similar size to lattice thermal vibration at 7 K. Our results address the long-term concern of dopant introduced loc…
Superconductivity in the Tl-based cuprates encompasses a notably broad range of measured optimal transition temperatures Tc0, ranging from lowest in the charge-depleted Tl-1201 compounds (Tl$_{1-x}$(Ba/Sr)$_{1+y}$La$_{1-y}$CuO$_{5-δ}$), such as Tl$_{0.7}$LaSrCuO$_5$ (37 K) and TlBa$_{1.2}$La$_{0.8}$CuO$_5$ (45.4 K), to highest in the Tl-1223 compound TlBa$_2$Ca$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{9{\pm}δ}$ (133.5 K). Seven Tl-based cuprates are considered and compared using the model of superconductive pairing via electronic interactions between two physically separated charge reservoirs, where Tc0 $\propto$ (ση/A)$…
Effect of magnetic field on the superconducting phase in the electron-doped metallic double-chain compound Pr$_{2}$Ba$_{4}$Cu$_{7}$O$_{15-δ}$
本文报道了Pr $_{2}$ Ba $_{4}$ Cu $_{7}$ O $_{15-δ}$多晶样品的磁输运和$dc$磁化率,以研究磁场对金属CuO双链超导相的影响。从电阻转变数据估计电阻临界磁场在低温下约为21 T。另一方面,由磁化测量确定的相应临界场在2 K下产生非常低的$\sim 0.3$ T值。电阻率和磁化强度数据之间的磁响应中的这些差异是由即使在相对较低的磁场中磁屏蔽效应的消失引起的。尽管观察到与超导输运电流相关的电阻降,但抗磁信号的抑制可能与准一维CuO双链的超导性有关。在双链模型的基础上,通过密度泛函能带计算,讨论了超导体Pr $_{2}$ Ba $_{4}$ Cu $_{7}$ O $_{15-δ}$中Seebeck系数的行为.
Uniform mixing of antiferromagnetism and high-T_c superconductivity in multilayered copper oxides Ba_2Ca_{n-1}Cu_nO_{2n}F_2 with apical fluorines (n=2,3,4): Cu-NMR/NQR and F-NMR
We investigate the interplay between the lattice, charge, and spin dynamics in charge ordered high $T_c$ cuprate La$_{1.875}$Ba$_{0.125}$CuO$_{4}$ ($T_{c} =4$~K) based on the inverse Laplace transform (ILT) analysis of the $^{139}$La nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate $1/T_1$ (dubbed ILTT$_{1}$ analysis here after). A major thrust of the ILTT$_{1}$ analysis is that one can deduce the probability density function $P(1/T_1)$ of distributed $1/T_1$. We demonstrate that $1/T_{1}^{lm}$, defined as the log-mean (i.e. the center of gravity on a logarithmic scale) of $P(1/T_1)$, can be well approxim…
Using resonant X-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy, we study charge correlations and lattice dynamics in two model cuprates, HgBa$_{2}$CuO$_{4+δ}$ and HgBa$_{2}$CaCu$_{2}$O$_{6+δ}$. We observe a maximum of the characteristic charge order temperature around the same hole concentration ($p \approx 0.09$) in both compounds, and concomitant pronounced anomalies in the lattice dynamics that involve the motion of atoms in and/or adjacent to the CuO$_2$ layers. These anomalies are already present at room temperature, and therefore precede the formation of the static charge correlations, and we a…