In underdoped cuprate high $T_{\mathrm{c}}$ superconductors, various local orders and symmetry breaking states, in addition to superconductivity, reside in the CuO$_2$ planes. The confinement of the CuO$_2$ planes can therefore play a fundamental role in modifying the hierarchy between the various orders and their intertwining with superconductivity. Here we present the growth of $a$-axis oriented YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{7-δ}$ films, spanning the whole underdoped side of the phase diagram. In these samples, the CuO$_2$ planes are confined by the film thickness, effectively forming unit-cell-thick nanoribbons. The unidirectional confinement at the nanoscale enhances the in-plane anisotropy of the films. By X-ray diffraction and resistance vs temperature measurements, we have discovered the suppression of the orthorhombic-to-tetragonal transition at low dopings, and a very high anisotropy of the normal state resistance in the $b$-$c$ plane, the latter being connected to a weak coupling between adjacent CuO$_2$ nanoribbons. These findings show that the samples we have grown represent a novel system, different from the bulk, where future experiments can possibly shed light on the rich and mysterious physics occurring within the CuO$_2$ planes.
Anomalous Proximity Effect in Underdoped YBaCuO Josephson Junctions
利用近场扫描光学显微镜在YBa $_2$ Cu $_3$ O $_{6+x}$系列欠掺杂薄膜中光生约瑟夫森结。在两条导线之间的距离为100 nm时观察到的约瑟夫森效应表明存在一个非常大的邻近效应,并表明结间隙中的欠掺杂绝缘材料很容易被扰动到超导状态。结的临界电流被发现是符合传统的约瑟夫森关系。这一结果限制了SO(5)理论解释高临界温度超导体相图的适用性。
Comment on Multiple Quantum Oscillations in the de Haas - van Alphen Spectra of the Underdoped High-Temperature Superconductor YBa2Cu3O6.5 (A. Audouard et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 103 (2009) 157003)
Multiple Quantum Oscillations in the de Haas van Alphen Spectra of the Underdoped High Temperature Superconductor YBa_2Cu_3O_6.5
通过改进实验条件和大量的数据积累,我们对欠掺杂高温超导体$_{2}$ O $_{3}$的de Haas-van Alphen效应的测量取得了很高的精度。我们发现,主振荡,到目前为止被认为是单频,是由三个紧密间隔的频率。我们把这归因于双层分裂和一个单一的准二维费米面的翘曲,表明\emph{c}轴的相干性恢复在低温下在欠掺杂的铜氧化物。我们的结果不支持最近报道的在同一化合物中存在1650 T量级的更大频率[S. E. Sebastian { \it等人},Nature { \bf 454},200(2008)]。
The normal state of optimally doped cuprates is dominated by the "strange metal" phase that shows a linear temperature ($T$) dependence of the resistivity persisting down to the lowest $T$. For underdoped cuprates this behavior is lost below the pseudogap temperature $T^*$, where Charge Density Waves (CDW) together with other intertwined local orders characterize the ground state. Here we show that the $T$-linear resistivity of highly strained, ultrathin and underdoped YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{7-δ}$ films is restored when the CDW amplitude, detected by Resonant Inelastic X-ray scattering, is suppresse…
Reply to comment by Y. Ando on "Onset of Boson Mode at the Superconducting Critical Point of Underdoped YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_y$" by N. Doiron-Leyraud et al
在最近的评论[arXiv:0711.4654]中,Y. Ando提出了两个有效的问题,我们的低温热输运研究的YBa $_2$ Cu $_3$ O $_y$通过绝缘体-超导体边界:1)在散射声子的孪晶界的可能作用; 2)从数据中提取一个费米子(线性)项的最佳拟合程序。在本回复中,我们表明,这两个问题可以放下休息1)使用新的数据,从一个tetratelysis(双自由)样品,2)使用分析,不涉及任何拟合。
de Haas-van Alphen oscillations in the underdoped cuprate YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{6.5}$
利用转矩技术在高达59 T的脉冲磁场中观察到欠掺杂铜氧化物YBa $_2$ Cu $_3$ O $_{6.5}$的de Haas van Alphen效应。在$\sim$ 30 T的不可逆性场以上,磁化强度表现出明显的量子振荡,单频为540 T,回旋质量为自由电子质量的1.76倍,与先前观察到的Shubnikov-de Haas振荡非常一致。振荡遵循费米液体理论的标准Lifshitz-Kosevich公式。这种量子振荡的热力学观测证实了在铜酸盐的赝能隙相中存在一个定义明确、紧密且相干的费米面。
NMR evidence for Friedel-like oscillations in the CuO chains of ortho-II YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{6.5}$
对去孪晶的Ortho-II型$_2$ O $_{6.5}$(YBCO 6.5)单晶的CuO链的核磁共振(NMR)测量揭示了不寻常的和显著的性质。链Cu共振显着加宽,但逐渐,从室温冷却。其线形及其温度依赖性与常规自旋/电荷密度波(S/CDW)相变的线形及其温度依赖性显著不同。相反,线加宽归因于小振幅静态自旋和电荷密度振荡,其具有与有限长度链的末端连接的空间变化的振幅。这种CuO链现象的影响也清楚地表现在平面Cu NMR中。
Recent angle resolved photoemission spectrascope (ARPES) experiments on strongly underdoped Bi$_2$Sr$_{2-x}$La$_x$CuO$_{6+δ}$ cuprates have reported an unusual gap in the nodal direction. Transport experiments on these cuprates found variable range hopping behavior observed. These cuprates have both electron and hole doping which has led to proposals that this cuprate is analogous to a partially compensated semiconductors. The nodal gap then corresponds to the Efros-Schklovskii(ES) gap in such semiconductors. We calculate the doping dependence and temperature dependence of a ES gap model and f…
The electron dynamics in the CuO chains has been elusive in Y-Ba-Cu-O cuprate systems by means of standard angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES); cleaved sample exhibits areas terminated by both CuO-chain or BaO layers, and the size of a typical beam results in ARPES signals that are superposed from both terminations. Here, we employ spatially-resolved ARPES with submicrometric beam (nano-ARPES) to reveal the surface-termination-dependent electronic structures of the double CuO chains in YBa$_2$Cu$_4$O$_8$. We present the first observation of sharp metallic dispersions and Fermi su…
Fine questions our interpretation of unidirectional-stripes over bidirectional-checkerboard, and illustrates his criticism by simulating a momentum space structure consistent with our data and corresponding to a checkerboard-looking real space density. Here we use a local rotational-symmetry analysis to demonstrate that the simulated image is in actuality composed of locally unidirectional modulations of the charge density, consistent with our original conclusions.
Zn-Neighbor Cu NQR in Zn-Substituted YBa2Cu3O7-d and YBa2Cu4O8
利用Cu(2)核四极共振(NQR)谱的卫星信号研究了最佳掺杂$_2$(Cu $_{1-x}$ Zn_x)$_3$ O $_{7-δ}$和欠掺杂$_2$(Cu $_{1-x}$ Zn_x)$_4$ O $_8$中Zn附近的局域电子态.从Cu NQR谱的相对强度,卫星信号被分配到Zn邻居Cu NQR线。卫星信号的Cu核自旋-晶格弛豫时间比主信号的短,表明无论是欠掺杂还是最佳掺杂体系,Zn附近的磁关联都局部增强。纯YBa $_2$ Cu $_4$ O $_8$是化学计量的、均匀的、欠掺杂的电子系统;然而,在CuO $_2$平面中的Zn诱导的不均匀磁响应比最佳掺杂的YBa $_2$ Cu $_3$ O $_{7-δ}$更显著。
Evidence of a critical hole concentration in underdoped YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_y$ single crystals revealed by $^{63}$Cu NMR
我们报道了一个$^{63}$ Cu NMR研究在去孪晶YBa $_2$ Cu $_3$ O $_y$单晶,重点是高度欠掺杂制度(y=6.35-6.6)。测量的光谱和自旋-晶格弛豫速率的$^{63}$铜揭示了静态秩序的出现在一个定义良好的起始温度$T_0$没有一个已知的序参数。虽然$T_0$随着空穴掺杂浓度$p$的增加而被快速抑制,但自旋赝能隙仅在$T_0\rightarrow 0$的掺杂含量附近和之上被识别。我们的数据表明,存在一个关键的空穴掺杂$p_c\sim 0.1$,这可能会控制静态秩序在$p<p_c$和自旋赝能隙在$p>p_c$。
Conventional proximity effect in bilayers of superconducting underdoped $La_{1.88}Sr_{0.12}CuO_4$ islands coated with non superconducting overdoped $La_{1.65}Sr_{0.35}CuO_4$
Intrinsic Hall response of the CuO2 planes in a chain-plane-composite system of YBa2Cu3Oy
测量了YBa $_2$ Cu $_3$ O $_y$非孪晶单晶在宽掺杂范围内的霍尔系数。我们表明,霍尔电导率和霍尔角的{ \it CuO $_2$平面}在YBa $_2$ Cu $_3$ O $_y$可以从可测量的输运性质提取,而不管导电的Cu-O链,也不是在平面各向异性的CuO $_2$平面。本分析使我们能够讨论真正的霍尔效应在CuO $_2$平面单独在YBa $_2$ Cu $_3$ O $_y$没有任何并发症,由于Cu-O链。
A study of the ferromagnetic transition of $SrRuO_3$ in nanometer thick bilayers with $YBa_2Cu_3O_y$, $La_{1.88}Sr_{0.12}CuO_{4-y}$, Au and Cr: Signature of injected carriers in the pseudogap regime
We make use of the strong spin-charge coupling in the electron-doped cuprate $\mathrm{Nd}_{2-x}\mathrm{Ce}_x\mathrm{CuO}_4$ to probe changes in its spin system via magnetotransport measurements. We present a detailed study of the out-of-plane magnetoresistance in underdoped single crystals of this compound, including the nonsuperconducting, $0.05\,\leq x\,\leq 0.115$, and superconducting, $0.12\,\leq x\,\leq 0.13$, compositions. Special focus is put on the dependence of the magnetoresistance on the field orientation in the plane of the CuO$_2$ layers. In addition to the kink at the field-induc…
A low-frequency resistance noise study in highly underdoped thick films of La$_{2-x}$Sr$_{x}$CuO$_{4}$ ($x=0.07$ and 0.08) reveals slow, correlated dynamics and breaking of ergodicity near the superconducting transition of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless type. The observed correlated behavior is strongly suppressed by disorder.
For orthorhombic superconductors we define thermodynamic anisotropy $N \equiv d T_c/d ε_{22} - dT_c/d ε_{11}$ as the difference in how superconducting $T_c$ varies with strains $ε_{ii}$, $i=(1, 2)$, along the in-plane directions. We study the hole doping ($p$) dependence of $N$ on detwinned single crystals of underdoped YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_y$ (YBCO) using ultrasound technique. While the structural orthorhombicity of YBCO reduces monotonically with decreasing doping over $0.065 <p<0.16$, we find that the thermodynamic anisotropy shows an intriguing enhancement at intermediate doping level, which is…
We present the fabrication and electrical transport characterization of underdoped YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{7-δ}$ nanowires. The nanowires have been realized without any protective capping layer and they show transport properties similar to those of the parent thin film, demonstrating that they have not been damaged by the nanopatterning. The current-voltage characteristics of the underdoped nanowires show large hysteretic voltage switching at the critical current, in contrast to the flux-flow like characteristics of optimally doped nanostructures, indicating the formation of a self-stabilizing hot sp…
Comin et al. [Science 347, 1335 (2015)] have interpreted their resonant X-ray scattering experiment as indicating that charge inhomogeneities in the family of high-temperature superconductors YBa2Cu3O6+y (YBCO) have the character of one-dimensional stripes rather than two-dimensional checkerboards. The present comment shows that one cannot distinguish between stripes and checkerboards on the basis of the above experiment.
Anisotropic microwave conductivity of cuprate superconductors in the presence of CuO chain induced impurities
在动能驱动的超导机制下,研究了邻位Ⅱ型$_2$的微波电导各向异性.邻位-Ⅱ $_2$ $_3$ O $_{6.50}$的特征在于填充和空$\hat{b}$轴CuO链的周期性交替。考虑CuO链诱导的扩展各向异性杂质散射,基于准粒子激发和散射过程的节块近似,再现了邻位Ⅱ型$_2$微波电导各向异性的主要特征,包括$\hat{a}$轴和$\hat{b}$轴微波电导的能量和温度依赖性的强度和线形.我们的研究结果也证实了$\hat{b}$轴CuO链诱导杂质是各向异性的主要来源。