Atomically-resolved interlayer charge ordering and its interplay with superconductivity in YBa2Cu3O6.81

Chun Chih Hsu, Bo Chao Huang, Michael Schnedler, Ming Yu Lai, Yuh Lin Wang, Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski, Chia Seng Chang, Ting Kuo Lee, Philipp Ebert*, Ya Ping Chiu*

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3 引文 斯高帕斯(Scopus)

摘要

High-temperature superconductive (SC) cuprates exhibit not only a SC phase, but also competing orders, suppressing superconductivity. Charge order (CO) has been recognized as an important competing order, but its microscopic spatial interplay with SC phase as well as the interlayer coupling in CO and SC phases remain elusive, despite being essential for understanding the physical mechanisms of competing orders and hence superconductivity. Here we report the achievement of direct real-space imaging with atomic-scale resolution of cryogenically cleaved YBa2Cu3O6.81 using cross-sectional scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy. CO nanodomains are found embedded in the SC phase with a proximity-like boundary region characterized by mutual suppression of CO and superconductivity. Furthermore, SC coherence as well as CO occur on both CuO chain and plane layers, revealing carrier transport and density of states mixing between layers. The CO antiphase correlation along the c direction suggests a dominance of Coulomb repulsion over Josephson tunneling between adjacent layers.

原文英語
文章編號3893
期刊Nature Communications
12
發行號1
DOIs
出版狀態已發佈 - 2021 12月 1

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • 一般化學
  • 一般生物化學,遺傳學和分子生物學
  • 一般物理與天文學

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