75 research outputs found
Raman and infrared studies of La_1-ySr_yMn_1-xM_xO_3 (M=Cr, Co, Cu, Zn, Sc or Ga): Oxygen disorder and local vibrational modes
We present results of our study of polarized Raman scattering and infrared
reflectivity of rhombohedral ceramic La_1-ySr_yMn_1-xM_xO_3 manganites in the
temperature range between 77 and 320K. In our samples, a part of the Mn atoms
is substituted by M = Cr, Co, Cu, Zn, Sc, or Ga with x in the range 0 -- 0.1.
The hole concentration was kept at the optimal value of about 32% by tuning the
Sr content y. We have monitored the distortions of the oxygen sublattice by the
presence of broad bands in the Raman spectra, the increase of d.c. resistivity
extracted from the infrared reflectivity, and the change of the critical
temperature of the ferromagnetic transition. Our results support the idea, that
these properties are mainly determined by the radius of the substituent ion,
its electronic and magnetic structure playing only a minor role. Furthermore,
the Raman spectra exhibit an additional A_g-like high frequency mode attributed
to the local breathing vibration of oxygens surrounding the substituent ion.
Its frequency and intensity strongly depend on the type of the substituent. In
the Co-substituted sample, the mode anomalously softens when going from 300 to
77K. The frequency of the bulk A_{1g} mode depends linearly on the angle of the
rhombohedral distortion.Comment: 11 pages, 11 Figures, best-fit values table added, a discussion adde
Evidence for multiple superconducting gaps in optimally doped BaFeCoAs from infrared spectroscopy
We performed combined infrared reflection and ellipsometry measurements of
the in-plane optical reponse of single crystals of the pnictide high
temperature superconductor BaFeCoAs with = 24.5
K. We observed characteristic superconductivity-induced changes which provide
evidence for at least three different energy gaps. We show that a BCS-model of
isotropic gaps with 2 of 3.1, 4.7, and 9.2 reproduces the
experimental data rather well. We also determine the low-temperature value of
the in-plane magnetic penetration depth of 270 nm
Dynamical response and confinement of the electrons at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface
With infrared ellipsometry and transport measurements we investigated the
electrons at the interface between LaAlO3 and SrTiO3. We obtained a sheet
carrier density of Ns~5-9x 10E13 cm^-2, an effective mass of m*~3m_e, and a
strongly frequency dependent mobility. The latter are similar as in bulk
SrTi1-xNbxO3 and therefore suggestive of polaronic correlations of the confined
carriers. We also determined the vertical density profile which has a strongly
asymmetric shape with a rapid initial decay over the first 2 nm and a
pronounced tail that extends to about 11 nm.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, 1 EPAPS file (3 figures
Macroscopic phase segregation in superconducting K0.73Fe1.67Se2 as seen by muon spin rotation and infrared spectroscopy
Using muon spin rotation (\muSR) and infrared spectroscopy we investigated
the recently discovered superconductor K0.73Fe1.67Se2 with Tc = 32 K. We show
that the combined data can be consistently described in terms of a
macroscopically phase segregated state with a matrix of ~88% volume fraction
that is insulating and strongly magnetic and inclusions with a ~12% volume
fraction which are metallic, superconducting and non-magnetic. The electronic
properties of the latter, in terms of the normal state plasma frequency and the
superconducting condensate density, appear to be similar as in other iron
selenide or arsenide superconductors.Comment: 22 pages, 8 figures. (citation list correction.
Coexistence and competition of magnetism and superconductivity on the nanometer scale in underdoped BaFe1.89Co0.11As2
We report muon spin rotation (muSR) and infrared (IR) spectroscopy
experiments on underdoped BaFe1.89Co0.11As2 which show that bulk magnetism and
superconductivity (SC) coexist and compete on the nanometer length scale. Our
combined data reveal a bulk magnetic order, likely due to an incommensurate
spin density wave (SDW), which develops below Tmag \approx 32 K and becomes
reduced in magnitude (but not in volume) below Tc = 21.7 K. A slowly
fluctuating precursor of the SDW seems to develop alrady below the structural
transition at Ts \approx 50 K. The bulk nature of SC is established by the muSR
data which show a bulk SC vortex lattice and the IR data which reveal that the
majority of low-energy states is gapped and participates in the condensate at T
<< Tc
Neutron scattering study of the magnetic phase diagram of underdoped YBa(2)Cu(3)O(6+x)
We present a neutron triple-axis and resonant spin-echo spectroscopy study of
the spin correlations in untwinned YBCO crystals with x= 0.3, 0.35, and 0.45 as
a function of temperature and magnetic field. As the temperature T approaches
0, all samples exhibit static incommensurate magnetic order with propagation
vector along the a-direction in the CuO2 planes. The incommensurability delta
increases monotonically with hole concentration, as it does in LSCO. However,
delta is generally smaller than in LSCO at the same doping level. The intensity
of the incommensurate Bragg reflections increases with magnetic field for
YBCO(6.45) (superconducting Tc = 35 K), whereas it is field-independent for
YBCO(6.35) (Tc = 10 K). These results suggest that YBCO samples with x ~ 0.5
exhibit incommensurate magnetic order in the high fields used for the recent
quantum oscillation experiments on this system, which likely induces a
reconstruction of the Fermi surface. We present neutron spin-echo measurements
(with energy resolution ~ 1 micro-eV) for T > 0 that demonstrate a continuous
thermal broadening of the incommensurate magnetic Bragg reflections into a
quasielastic peak centered at excitation energy E = 0, consistent with the
zero-temperature transition expected for a two-dimensional spin system with
full spin-rotation symmetry. Measurements on YBCO(6.45) with a triple-axis
spectrometer (with energy resolution ~ 100 micro-eV) yield a crossover
temperature T_SDW ~ 30 K for the onset of quasi-static magnetic order. Upon
further heating, the wavevector characterizing low-energy spin excitations
approaches the commensurate antiferromagnetic wave vector, and the
incommensurability vanishes in an order-parameter-like fashion at an
"electronic liquid-crystal" onset temperature T_ELC ~ 150 K. Both T_SDW and
T_ELC increase continuously as the Mott-insulating phase is approached with
decreasing doping level.Comment: to appear in a special issue on "Fermiology of Cuprates" of the New
Journal of Physic
Electric-field-induced pyroelectric order and localization of the confined electrons in LaAlO3/SrTiO3 heterostructures
With infrared ellipsometry, x-ray diffraction, and electric transport
measurements we investigated the electric-field-effect on the confined
electrons at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface. We obtained evidence that the
localization of the electrons at low temperature and negative gate voltage is
induced, or at least strongly enhanced, by a pyroelectric phase transition in
SrTiO3 which strongly reduces the lattice polarizability and the subsequent
Coulomb screening. In particular, we show that the charge localisation and the
polar order of SrTiO3 both develop below about 50 K and exhibit similar,
unipolar hysteresis loops as a function of the gate voltage. Our findings
suggest that the pyroelectric order also plays an important role in the quantum
phase transition at very low temperatures where superconductivity is suppressed
by an electric field.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, supplementary materia
Evidence of precursor superconductivity as high as 180 K from infrared spectroscopy
We show that a multilayer analysis of the infrared c-axis response of
RBa2Cu3O7-d (R=Y, Gd, Eu) provides important new information about the
anomalous normal state properties of underdoped cuprate high temperature
superconductors. Besides competing correlations which give rise to a pseudogap
that depletes the low-energy electronic states below T*>>Tc, it enables us to
identify the onset of a precursor superconducting state below Tons>Tc. We map
out the doping phase diagram of Tons which reaches a maximum of ~180 K at
strong underdoping and present magnetic field dependent data which confirm our
conclusions.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
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