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F. Laliberte,
J Chang,
N. Doiron-Leyraud,
E. Hassinger,
R. Daou,
M. Rondeau,
B. J. Ramshaw, R Liang,
D. A. Bonn,
W. N. Hardy,
S. Pyon,
T Takayama,
H Takagi,
I. Sheikin,
L. Malone,
C. Proust,
K. Behnia,
L. Taillefer
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ABSTRACT: Quantum oscillations have revealed the presence of a small pocket in the
Fermi surface of the cuprate superconductor YBCO, whose nature and origin are
the subject of much debate. Interpretations include electron and hole pockets;
scenarios include Fermi-surface reconstruction by antiferromagnetism,
d-density-wave order, and stripe order. Here we report quantum oscillations in
the Seebeck and Nernst coefficients of YBCO and show, from the magnitude and
sign of the Seebeck coefficient, that they come from an electron pocket. Using
measurements of the Seebeck coefficient as a function of hole doping p, we show
that the evolution of the Fermi surface in YBCO is the same as in Eu-LSCO, a
cuprate where stripe order (a modulation of spin and charge densities) is well
established. The electron pocket is most prominent where stripe order is
strongest, at p = 1/8. This shows that Fermi-surface reconstruction is a
generic mechanism of underdoped cuprates, intimately related to stripe order.
02/2011;
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F Laliberté,
J Chang,
N Doiron-Leyraud,
E Hassinger,
R Daou,
M Rondeau,
B J Ramshaw, R Liang,
D A Bonn,
W N Hardy,
S Pyon,
T Takayama,
H Takagi,
I Sheikin,
L Malone,
C Proust,
K Behnia,
Louis Taillefer
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ABSTRACT: The origin of pairing in a superconductor resides in the underlying normal state. In the cuprate high-temperature superconductor YBa(2)Cu(3)O(y) (YBCO), application of a magnetic field to suppress superconductivity reveals a ground state that appears to break the translational symmetry of the lattice, pointing to some density-wave order. Here we use a comparative study of thermoelectric transport in the cuprates YBCO and La(1.8-x)Eu(0.2)Sr(x)CuO(4) (Eu-LSCO) to show that the two materials exhibit the same process of Fermi-surface reconstruction as a function of temperature and doping. The fact that in Eu-LSCO this reconstruction coexists with spin and charge modulations that break translational symmetry shows that stripe order is the generic non-superconducting ground state of hole-doped cuprates.
Nature Communications 01/2011; 2:432. · 7.40 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: We have measured the spin fluctuations in the YBa2Cu3O6.5 (YBCO6.5,Tc=59 K) superconductor at high-energy transfers above ∼100 meV. Within experimental error, the momentum dependence is isotropic at high energies, similar to that measured in the insulator for two-dimensional spin waves, and the dispersion extrapolates back to the incommensurate wave vector at the elastic position. This result contrasts with previous expectations based on measurements around 50 meV which were suggestive of a softening of the spin-wave velocity with increased hole doping. Unlike the insulator, we observe a significant reduction in the intensity of the spin excitations for energy transfers above ∼100 meV similar to that observed above ∼200 meV in the YBCO6.35 (Tc=18 K) superconductor as the spin waves approach the zone boundary. We attribute this high-energy scale with a second gap and find agreement with measurements of the pseudogap in the cuprates associated with electronic anomalies along the antinodal positions. In addition, we observe a sharp peak at around 400 meV whose energy softens with increased hole doping. We discuss possible origins of this excitation including a hydrogen-related molecular excitation and a transition of electronic states between d levels.
Phys. Rev. B. 11/2010; 82(17).
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ABSTRACT: We have measured the spin fluctuations in the YBa2Cu3O6.5 (YBCO6.5, Tc=59 K) superconductor at high-energy transfers above ~ 100 meV. Within experimental error, the momentum dependence is isotropic at high-energies, similar to that measured in the insulator for two dimensional spin waves, and the dispersion extrapolates back to the incommensurate wave vector at the elastic position. This result contrasts with previous expectations based on measurements around 50 meV which were suggestive of a softening of the spin-wave velocity with increased hole doping. Unlike the insulator, we observe a significant reduction in the intensity of the spin excitations for energy transfers above ~ 100 meV similar to that observed above ~ 200 meV in the YBCO6.35 (Tc=18 K) superconductor as the spin waves approach the zone boundary. We attribute this high energy scale with a second gap and find agreement with measurements of the pseudogap in the cuprates associated with electronic anomalies along the antinodal positions. In addition, we observe a sharp peak at around 400 meV whose energy softens with increased hole doping. We discuss possible origins of this excitation including a hydrogen related molecular excitation and a transition of electronic states between d levels. Comment: (16 pages, 12 figures, to be published in Physical Review B)
11/2010;
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D. Fournier,
G. Levy,
Y Pennec,
J. L. McChesney,
A. Bostwick,
E. Rotenberg, R Liang,
W. N. Hardy,
D. A. Bonn,
I. S. Elfimov,
A. Damascelli
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ABSTRACT: Arguably the most intriguing aspect of the physics of cuprates is the close proximity between the record high-Tc superconductivity (HTSC) and the antiferromagnetic charge-transfer insulating state driven by Mott-like electron correlations. These are responsible for the intimate connection between high and low-energy scale physics, and their key role in the mechanism of HTSC was conjectured very early on. More recently, the detection of quantum oscillations in high-magnetic field experiments on YBa2Cu3O6+x (YBCO) has suggested the existence of a Fermi surface of well-defined quasiparticles in underdoped cuprates, lending support to the alternative proposal that HTSC might emerge from a Fermi liquid across the whole cuprate phase diagram. Discriminating between these orthogonal scenarios hinges on the quantitative determination of the elusive quasiparticle weight Z, over a wide range of hole-doping p. By means of angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) on in situ doped YBCO, and following the evolution of bilayer band-splitting, we show that the overdoped metal electronic structure (0.25<p<0.37) is in remarkable agreement with density functional theory and the Z=2p/(p+1) mean-field prediction. Below p~0.10-0.15, we observe the vanishing of the nodal quasiparticle weight Z_N; this marks a clear departure from Fermi liquid behaviour and -- consistent with dynamical mean-field theory -- is even a more rapid crossover to the Mott physics than expected for the doped resonating valence bond (RVB) spin liquid. Comment: Nature Physics, in press. A high-resolution version can be found at http://www.physics.ubc.ca/~quantmat/ARPES/PUBLICATIONS/Articles/YBCO_Z.pdf
07/2010;
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ABSTRACT: Using neutron scattering, we investigate the effect of a magnetic field on the static and dynamic spin response in heavily underdoped superconducting YBa2Cu3O6+x (YBCO6+x) with x=0.33 (Tc=8 K) and 0.35 (Tc=18 K). In contrast to the heavily doped and superconducting monolayer cuprates, the elastic central peak characterizing static spin correlations does not respond observably to a magnetic field which suppresses superconductivity. Instead, we find a magnetic-field-induced resonant enhancement of the spin fluctuations. The energy scale of the enhanced fluctuations matches the Zeeman energy within both the normal and vortex phases, while the momentum dependence is the same as the zero-field bilayer response. The magnitude of the enhancement is very similar in both phases with a fractional intensity change of (I/I0−1)∼0.1. We suggest that the enhancement is not directly correlated with superconductivity but is the result of almost free spins located near hole-rich regions.
Phys. Rev. B. 03/2009; 79(18).
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Jing Xia,
Elizabeth Schemm,
G Deutscher,
S A Kivelson,
D A Bonn,
W N Hardy, R Liang,
W Siemons,
G Koster,
M M Fejer,
A Kapitulnik
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ABSTRACT: The polar Kerr effect in the high-T_(c) superconductor YBa2Cu3O6+x was measured at zero magnetic field with high precision using a cyogenic Sagnac fiber interferometer. We observed nonzero Kerr rotations of order approximately 1 microrad appearing near the pseudogap temperature T(*) and marking what appears to be a true phase transition. Anomalous magnetic behavior in magnetic-field training of the effect suggests that time reversal symmetry is already broken above room temperature.
Physical Review Letters 03/2008; 100(12):127002. · 7.37 Impact Factor
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M. A. Hossain,
J. D. F. Mottershead,
A. Bostwick,
J. L. McChesney,
E. Rotenberg, R Liang,
W. N. Hardy,
G. A. Sawatzky,
I. S. Elfimov,
D. A. Bonn,
A. Damascelli
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ABSTRACT: The discovery of quantum oscillations in the normal-state electrical resistivity of YBa2Cu3O6.5 provides the first evidence for the existence of Fermi surface (FS) pockets in an underdoped cuprate. However, the pockets' electron vs. hole character, and the very interpretation in terms of closed FS contours, are the subject of considerable debate. Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), with its ability to probe electronic dispersion as well as the FS, is ideally suited to address this issue. Unfortunately, the ARPES study of YBa2C3O7-d (YBCO) has been hampered by the technique's surface sensitivity. Here we show that this stems from the polarity and corresponding self-doping of the YBCO surface. By in-situ deposition of potassium atoms on the cleaved surface, we are able to continuously tune the doping of a single sample from the heavily overdoped to the underdoped regime. This reveals the progressive collapse of the normal-metal-like FS into four disconnected nodal FS arcs, or perhaps into hole but not electron pockets, in underdoped YBCO6.5.
02/2008;
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ABSTRACT: Using neutron scattering we have determined the magnetic structure and fluctuations in the YBa2Cu3O6.35 superconductor (Tc=18 K). The long-range ordered collinear spins of the insulating antiferromagnet are replaced by a commensurate central mode arising from slow, isotropically polarized, short-range spin correlations. The inelastic spectrum up to 30 meV is broad in wave vector and commensurate. In contrast to the the resonance peak of higher Tc superconductors, the spins exhibit a single overdamped spectrum whose rate of relaxation decreases on cooling and saturates at 5 meV below 50 K. As the relaxation rate saturates the quasi-static spin correlations grow and become resolution limited in energy. The spin susceptibility at high temperatures illustrates that the dominant energy scale is set by the temperature. At low temperatures, the scale length is geometric and not linked by velocity to dynamic widths. There is no observable suppression of the spin fluctuations or central mode upon the onset of superconductivity. The spins respond not to coherent charge pairs but to hole doping allowing coexistence of glassy short range spin order with superconductivity. Since the physics of the weakly superconducting system YBCO6.35 must connect continuously with that in more strongly superconducting YBCO6.5, we find that neither incommensurate stripe-like spin modulations nor a well-defined neutron spin resonance are essential for the onset with doping of pairing in a high temperature cuprate superconductor. Comment: 22 pages, 19 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. B
02/2008;
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C. Jaudet,
D. Vignolles,
A. Audouard,
J. Levallois,
D. LeBoeuf,
N. Doiron-Leyraud,
B. Vignolle,
M. Nardone,
A. Zitouni, R Liang,
D. A. Bonn,
W. N. Hardy,
L. Taillefer,
C. Proust
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ABSTRACT: The de Haas-van Alphen effect was observed in the underdoped cuprate YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{6.5}$ via a torque technique in pulsed magnetic fields up to 59 T. Above an irreversibility field of $\sim$30 T, the magnetization exhibits clear quantum oscillations with a single frequency of 540 T and a cyclotron mass of 1.76 times the free electron mass, in excellent agreement with previously observed Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations. The oscillations obey the standard Lifshitz-Kosevich formula of Fermi-liquid theory. This thermodynamic observation of quantum oscillations confirms the existence of a well-defined, close and coherent, Fermi surface in the pseudogap phase of cuprates. Comment: published version
11/2007;
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ABSTRACT: The magnetic spectrum at high energies in heavily underdoped YBa2Cu3O6.35 (Tc=18 K) has been determined throughout the Brillouin zone. At low energy, the scattering forms a cone of spin excitations emanating from the antiferromagnetic (0.5,0.5) wave vector with an acoustic velocity similar to that of insulating cuprates. At high-energy transfers, below the maximum energy of 270 meV at (0.5,0), we observe zone-boundary dispersion much larger and spectral weight loss more extensive than in insulating antiferromagnets. Moreover, we report phenomena not found in insulators, an overall lowering of the zone-boundary energies and a large damping of ∼100 meV of the spin excitations at high energies. The energy above which the damping occurs coincides approximately with the gap determined from transport measurements. We propose that as the energy is raised, the spin excitations encounter an extra channel of decay into particle-hole pairs of a continuum that we associate with the pseudogap.
Phys. Rev. B. 05/2007; 75(17).
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ABSTRACT: We describe a possible pathway to new magnetic materials with no conventional magnetic elements present. The substitution of nitrogen for oxygen in simple nonmagnetic oxides leads to holes in N 2p states which form local magnetic moments. Because of the very large Hund's rule coupling of Nitrogen and O 2p electrons and the rather extended spatial extent of the wave functions these materials are predicted to be ferromagnetic metals or small band gap insulators. Experimental studies support the theoretical calculations with regard to the basic electronic structure and the formation of local magnetic moments. It remains to be seen if these materials are magnetically ordered and, if so, below what temperature.
Physical Review Letters 04/2007; 98(13):137202. · 7.37 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: Magnetic spins and charges interact strongly in high-temperature superconductors. New physics emerges as layers of copper oxide are tuned towards the boundary of the superconducting phase. As the pseudogap increases the characteristic spin excitation energy decreases. We show that our well-annealed YBa2Cu3O6+x (YBCO6+x) single crystals are orthorhombic and superconducting but not antiferromagnetically ordered. Near the critical concentration for superconductivity for x = 0.35 the spins fluctuate on two energy scales, one a relaxational spin response at ~2 meV and the other a slow central mode that is resolution-limited in energy (<0.08 meV) but broad in momentum. The gradual formation on cooling of a central mode over a range of momenta suggests that the spin ground state from which coherent superconducting pairing emerges may be quantum disordered. We show that YBCO6.35 adopts a homogeneous state that consists of highly-organized frozen sub-critical three-dimensional spin correlations. The continuous spin evolution indicates that a single quantum state occurs in contrast to claims from site-based probes that lightly doped YBCO undergoes a transition to antiferromagnetic Bragg order followed by a sharp transition to a cluster glass phase. For x = 0.35, where Tc = 18 K is reduced to 1/5 of Tcmax, the spin ground state is reached without a sharp transition and consists of short correlations extending over only 8 Angstrom between cells and 42 Angstrom within the planes. Polarized neutrons show the angular spin distribution to be isotropic unlike the AF insulator. Since moment is conserved we interpret this as evidence for hole-induced spin rotations rather than decay. Comment: Review of spin response in cuprate superconductors YBCO underdoped to suppress Tc based on talk at International Conference on Neutron Scattering, Sydney, Australia, Nov 27-Dec 2, 2005 6 pages 6 figures
02/2007;
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D. G. Hawthorn,
S. Y. Li,
M. Sutherland,
E. Boaknin,
R. W. Hill,
C. Proust,
F. Ronning,
M. A. Tanatar,
J. Paglione,
L. Taillefer,
D. Peets, R. Liang,
D. A. Bonn,
W. N. Hardy,
N. N. Kolsnikov
Physical Review B 01/2007; 75(10):104518. · 3.69 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: We describe a possible pathway to new magnetic materials with no conventional magnetic elements present. The substitution of Nitrogen for Oxygen in simple non magnetic oxides leads to holes in N 2$p$ states which form local magnetic moments. Because of the very large Hund's rule coupling of Nitrogen and O 2$p$ electrons and the rather extended spatial extend of the wave functions these materials are predicted to be ferromagnetic metals or small band gap insulators. Experimental studies support the theoretical calculations with regard to the basic electronic structure and the formation of local magnetic moments. It remains to be seen if these materials are magnetically ordered and if so below what temperature.
09/2006;
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ABSTRACT: Single-particle spectroscopic probes, such as scanning tunneling and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), have provided us with crucial insights into the complex electronic structure of the high-Tc cuprates, in particular for the under and optimally doped regimes where high-quality crystals suitable for surface-sensitive experiments are available. Conversely, the elementary excitations on the heavily overdoped side of the phase diagram remain largely unexplored. Important breakthroughs could come from the study of Tl2Ba2CuO6+d (Tl2201), a structurally simple system whose doping level can be tuned from optimal to extreme overdoping by varying the oxygen content. We have grown single crystals of Tl2201, which were then carefully annealed under controlled oxygen partial pressures. Their high quality and homogeneity are demonstrated by narrow rocking curves and superconducting transition widths. These crystals have enabled the first successful ARPES study of both normal and superconducting-state electronic structure in Tl2201, allowing a direct comparison with the Fermi surface from magnetoresistance and the gap from thermal conductivity experiments. This establishes Tl2201 as the first high-Tc cuprate for which a surface-sensitive single-particle spectroscopy and a comparable bulk transport technique have arrived at quantitative agreement on a major feature such as the normal state Fermi surface. The surprising momentum dependence of the ARPES lineshape is also discussed. Comment: Submitted to New Journal of Physics (partly a replacement for cond-mat/0211028). A high-resolution version can be found at http://www.physics.ubc.ca/~quantmat/ARPES/PUBLICATIONS/Articles/Tl_NJP.pdf and related material at http://www.physics.ubc.ca/~quantmat/ARPES/PUBLICATIONS/articles.html
09/2006;
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C. Stock,
W. J. L. Buyers,
R A Cowley,
P S Clegg,
R. Coldea,
C D Frost, R Liang,
D. Peets,
D. Bonn,
W. N. Hardy,
R. J. Birgeneau
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ABSTRACT: We have investigated the spin fluctuations at energy transfers up to ~110 meV, well above the resonance energy (33 meV) in the YBa2Cu3O6.5 ortho-II superconductor using neutron time-of-flight and triple-axis techniques. The spectrum at high energies differs from the low-energy incommensurate modulations previously reported where the incommensurate wave vector is largely independent of energy. Well above the resonance the peak of the spin response lies at wave vectors that increase with energy. Within error the excitations at all energies above the resonance are best described by a ring around the (pi, pi) position. The isotropic wave-vector pattern differs from a recently reported square pattern in different but related systems. The spin spectral weight at high-energies is similar to that in the insulator but the characteristic velocity is ~40% lower. We introduce a method of extracting the acoustic and optic weights at all energies from time-of-flight data. We find that the optic spectral weight extends to surprisingly low-energies of ~25 meV, and infer that the bilayer spin correlations weaken with increase in hole doping. When the low-energy optic excitations are taken into account we measure the total integrated weight around (pi, pi), for energies below 120 meV, to agree with that expected from the insulator. As a qualitative guide, we compare spin-wave calculations for an ordered and a disordered stripe model and describe the inadequacy of this and other stripe models for the high-energy fluctuations. Comment: 20 pages, 16 figures, revised version of paper submitted Feb 19,2004, accepted by Phys Rev B Nov 17, 2004
08/2004;
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D. L. Feng,
A. Rusydi,
P. Abbamonte,
L. Venema,
I. Elfimov, R Liang,
D. A. Bonn,
W. N. Hardy,
C. Schusler-Langeheine,
S. Hulbert,
C. -C. Kao,
G. A. Sawatzky
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ABSTRACT: We report direct evidence of charge/orbital ordering of low energy electronic states of $Cu$ in YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{6+x}$ ortho-II phase in both the $CuO_3$ chain and the CuO$_2$ plane. Huge enhancement of the $({1/2},0,0)$ superstructure Bragg peak is observed when photon energy is tuned to the $Cu L_{2,3}$ absorption edge with large polarization dependence. The ordering in the $CuO_2$ plane discovered here sheds new light on how the one dimensional $Cu-O$ chains affect the $CuO_2$ plane, and why many normal and superconducting state properties of this system exhibit strong anisotropy.
03/2004;
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ABSTRACT: Copper NMR has been used as a local probe of the oxygen ordering in Ortho-II YBa2Cu3O6.5 crystals grown in BaZrO3 crucibles. Line assignments have been made to each of the expected crystallographically inequivalent sites. The presence of distinct and narrow lines for these sites as well as the lack of a line known to be associated with oxygen defects indicates that these crystals are highly stoichiometric. Our estimate of the lower limit on the chain length is consistent with that derived from X-ray diffraction measurements. In addition, we have found no evidence for static magnetic moments, in contrast to some previous results.
Physica C: Superconductivity. 10/2003;
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ABSTRACT: We describe the relation between spin fluctuations and superconductivity in a highly-ordered sample of YBaCu3O6.5 using both polarized and unpolarized neutron inelastic scattering. The spin susceptibility in the superconducting phase exhibits one-dimensional incommensurate modulations at low-energies, consistent with hydrodynamic stripes. With increasing energy the susceptibility curves upward to a commensurate, intense, well-defined and asymmetric resonance at 33 meV with a precipitous high-energy cutoff. In the normal phase, which we show is gapless, the resonance remains surprisingly strong and persists clearly in Q scans and energy scans. Its similar asymmetric spectral form above Tc=59 K suggests that incoherent superconducting pairing fluctuations are present in the normal state. On cooling, the resonance and the stripe modulations grow in well above Tc below a temperature that is comparable to the pseudogap temperature where suppression occurs in local and low-momentum properties. The spectral weight that accrues to the resonance is largely acquired by transfer from suppressed low-energy fluctuations. We find the resonance to be isotropically polarized, consistent with a triplet carrying ~2.6% of the total spectral weight of the Cu spins in the planes. Comment: 23 pages, 25 figures, submitted to PRB July 8, 2003, accepted October 24, 2003. Fig 24 (resonance integral v. Tc) changed and other updates
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