Back to Search
Start Over
Distinct Charge Orders in the Planes and Chains of Ortho-III-OrderedYBa2Cu3O6+δSuperconductors Identified by Resonant Elastic X-ray Scattering
- 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.
- Subjects :
- Superconductivity
Physics
Valence (chemistry)
Condensed matter physics
Scattering
Superlattice
General Physics and Astronomy
02 engineering and technology
021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology
01 natural sciences
Charge ordering
Condensed Matter::Superconductivity
0103 physical sciences
X-ray crystallography
Condensed Matter::Strongly Correlated Electrons
Cuprate
010306 general physics
0210 nano-technology
Charge density wave
Subjects
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