Nature Communications ( IF 14.7 ) Pub Date : 2019-07-22 , DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-11167-z J-J Wen 1 , H Huang 1 , S-J Lee 1 , H Jang 1, 2 , J Knight 1 , Y S Lee 1, 3 , M Fujita 4 , K M Suzuki 4 , S Asano 4 , S A Kivelson 5 , C-C Kao 1 , J-S Lee 1
The discovery of charge- and spin-density-wave (CDW/SDW) orders in superconducting cuprates has altered our perspective on the nature of high-temperature superconductivity (SC). However, it has proven difficult to fully elucidate the relationship between the density wave orders and SC. Here, using resonant soft X-ray scattering, we study the archetypal cuprate La2-xSrxCuO4 (LSCO) over a broad doping range. We reveal the existence of two types of CDW orders in LSCO, namely CDW stripe order and CDW short-range order (SRO). While the CDW-SRO is suppressed by SC, it is partially transformed into the CDW stripe order with developing SDW stripe order near the superconducting Tc. These findings indicate that the stripe orders and SC are inhomogeneously distributed in the superconducting CuO2 planes of LSCO. This further suggests a new perspective on the putative pair-density-wave order that coexists with SC, SDW, and CDW orders.
中文翻译:
超导La2-xSrxCuO4中两种电荷密度波阶的观察。
在超导铜酸盐中发现电荷和自旋密度波(CDW / SDW)阶数已经改变了我们对高温超导性(SC)性质的看法。但是,已经证明很难完全阐明密度波阶和SC之间的关系。在这里,使用共振软X射线散射,我们研究了宽掺杂范围内的原型铜酸盐La 2- x Sr x CuO 4(LSCO)。我们揭示了LSCO中CDW订单的两种类型,即CDW条带订单和CDW短程订单(SRO)。当CDW-SRO被SC抑制时,它会在超导T c附近发展为SDW条带顺序,从而部分转变为CDW条带顺序。。这些发现表明,条纹序和SC在LSCO的超导CuO 2平面中不均匀地分布。这进一步暗示了与SC,SDW和CDW指令共存的对偶密度波阶的新观点。