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Distinct Charge Orders in the Planes and Chains of Ortho-III-OrderedYBa2Cu3O6+δSuperconductors Identified by Resonant Elastic X-ray Scattering

Authors :
M. Moretti Sala
Alex Frano
Bernhard Keimer
X. Mao
Ruixing Liang
David Hawthorn
D. A. Bonn
Walter Hardy
Giacomo Claudio Ghiringhelli
Lucio Braicovich
M. Le Tacon
George A. Sawatzky
Santiago Blanco-Canosa
Andrew Achkar
Claudio Mazzoli
Matteo Minola
Feizhou He
Ronny Sutarto
Source :
Physical Review Letters. 109
Publication Year :
2012
Publisher :
American Physical Society (APS), 2012.

Abstract

Recently, charge density wave (CDW) order in the ${\mathrm{CuO}}_{2}$ planes of underdoped ${\mathrm{YBa}}_{2}{\mathrm{Cu}}_{3}{\mathrm{O}}_{6+\ensuremath{\delta}}$ was detected using resonant soft x-ray scattering. An important question remains: is the chain layer responsible for this charge ordering? Here, we explore the energy and polarization dependence of the resonant scattering intensity in a detwinned sample of ${\mathrm{YBa}}_{2}{\mathrm{Cu}}_{3}{\mathrm{O}}_{6.75}$ with ortho-III oxygen ordering in the chain layer. We show that the ortho-III CDW order in the chains is distinct from the CDW order in the planes. The ortho-III structure gives rise to a commensurate superlattice reflection at $Q=[0.33\text{ }0\text{ }L]$ whose energy and polarization dependence agrees with expectations for oxygen ordering and a spatial modulation of the Cu valence in the chains. Incommensurate peaks at [0.30 0 $L$] and [0 0.30 $L$] from the CDW order in the planes are shown to be distinct in $Q$ as well as their temperature, energy, and polarization dependence, and are thus unrelated to the structure of the chain layer. Moreover, the energy dependence of the CDW order in the planes is shown to result from a spatial modulation of energies of the Cu $2p$ to $3{d}_{{x}^{2}\ensuremath{-}{y}^{2}}$ transition, similar to stripe-ordered 214 cuprates.

Details

ISSN :
10797114 and 00319007
Volume :
109
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Physical Review Letters
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........1d54b74f98f2e04b30738e1e24ec9142
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.109.167001