Charge order and its connection with Fermi-liquid charge transport in a pristine high-T(c) cuprate

W Tabis; Y Li; M Le Tacon; L Braicovich; A Kreyssig; M Minola; G Dellea; E Weschke; M J Veit; M Ramazanoglu; A I Goldman; T Schmitt; G Ghiringhelli; N Barišić; M K Chan; C J Dorow; G Yu; X Zhao; B Keimer; M Greven

doi:10.1038/ncomms6875

Charge order and its connection with Fermi-liquid charge transport in a pristine high-T(c) cuprate

Nat Commun. 2014 Dec 19:5:5875. doi: 10.1038/ncomms6875.

Authors

W Tabis¹, Y Li², M Le Tacon³, L Braicovich⁴, A Kreyssig⁵, M Minola³, G Dellea⁴, E Weschke⁶, M J Veit⁷, M Ramazanoglu⁸, A I Goldman⁵, T Schmitt⁹, G Ghiringhelli⁴, N Barišić¹⁰, M K Chan⁷, C J Dorow⁷, G Yu⁷, X Zhao¹¹, B Keimer³, M Greven⁷

Affiliations

¹ 1] School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA [2] AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, Al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow, Poland.
² 1] International Center for Quantum Materials, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China [2] Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing 100871, China.
³ Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany.
⁴ CNR-SPIN, CNISM and Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, I-20133 Milano, Italy.
⁵ Ames Laboratory and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA.
⁶ Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Albert-Einstein-Strasse 15, D-12489 Berlin, Germany.
⁷ School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
⁸ 1] Ames Laboratory and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA [2] Physics Engineering Department, ITU, Maslak 34469, Istanbul, Turkey.
⁹ Research Department Synchrotron Radiation and Nanotechnology, Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland.
¹⁰ 1] School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA [2] Service de Physique de l'Etat Condensé, CEA-DSM-IRAMIS, F-91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France [3] Institute of Solid State Physics, Vienna University of Technology, 1040 Vienna, Austria.
¹¹ 1] School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA [2] State Key Lab of Inorganic Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China.

PMID: 25522689
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6875

Abstract

Electronic inhomogeneity appears to be an inherent characteristic of the enigmatic cuprate superconductors. Here we report the observation of charge-density-wave correlations in the model cuprate superconductor HgBa2CuO(4+δ) (T(c)=72 K) via bulk Cu L3-edge-resonant X-ray scattering. At the measured hole-doping level, both the short-range charge modulations and Fermi-liquid transport appear below the same temperature of about 200 K. Our result points to a unifying picture in which these two phenomena are preceded at the higher pseudogap temperature by q=0 magnetic order and the build-up of significant dynamic antiferromagnetic correlations. The magnitude of the charge modulation wave vector is consistent with the size of the electron pocket implied by quantum oscillation and Hall effect measurements for HgBa2CuO(4+δ) and with corresponding results for YBa2Cu3O(6+δ), which indicates that charge-density-wave correlations are universally responsible for the low-temperature quantum oscillation phenomenon.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.