Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"Complementary response of static spin-stripe order and superconductivity to non-magnetic impurities and pressure in cuprates"

Presented by Zurab Guguchia, Columbia University

Thursday, November 16, 2017, 1:30 pm — ISB Bldg. 734, Conference Room 201 (upstairs)

Cuprate high-temperature superconductors (HTSs) have complex phase diagrams with
multiple competing ordered phases. Understanding to which degree charge, spin, and
superconducting orders compete or coexist is paramount for elucidating the microscopic
pairing mechanism in the cuprate HTSs. In this talk, i will report some novel results of muonspin
rotation (μSR), neutron Scattering and magnetization experiments on non-magnetic Zn
impurity and hydrostatic pressure effects on the static spin-stripe order and superconductivity
in the La214 cuprates [1,2]. Namely, in La2−xBaxCu1−yZnyO4 (0.11 ≤ x ≤ 0.17) and
La1.48Nd0.4Sr0.12Cu1−yZnyO4. Remarkably, it was found that in these systems the spin-stripe
ordering temperature Tso decreases linearly with Zn doping y and disappears at y ≈ 4 % ,
demonstrating the extreme sensitivity of static spin-stripe order to impurities within a
CuO2 plane. Moreover, Tso is suppressed in the same manner as the superconducting transition
temperature Tc by Zn impurities. We also observed the same pressure evolution of both Tc and Tso in La2−xBaxCuO4, while there is an antagonistic pressure evolution of magnetic volume fraction and superfluid density [1,2,3]. These results indicate that static spin-stripe order and SC pairing correlations develop in a cooperative fashion in La214 cuprates. In other words, the existence of the stripe order requires intertwining with the SC pairing correlations, such as occurs in the proposed pair-density wave (PDW) state [4]. [1] Z. Guguchia et. al., Phys. Rev. B 94, 214511 (2016). [2] Z. Guguchia et. al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 087002 (2017). [3] Z. Guguchia et. al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 057002 (2014). [4] E. Fradkin, S.A. Kivelson, and J.M. Tranquada, Rev. Mod. Phys. 87, 457 (2015).

Hosted by: Emil Bozin

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