66 research outputs found
Superconductivity and Stoichiometry in the BSCCO-family Materials
We report on magnetization, c-axis and ab-plane resistivity, critical
current, electronic band structure and superconducting gap properties. Bulk
measurements and photoemission data were taken on similar samples.Comment: 4 pages, latex, to be published in Journal of Superconductivity. two
figures available from Jian Ma at [email protected]
Magnetic ordering in electronically phase-separated La2-xSrxCuO4+y: Neutron diffraction experiments
We present results of magnetic neutron diffraction experiments on the codoped superoxygenated La2-xSrxCuO4+y (LSCO+O) system with x=0.09. We find that the magnetic phase is long-range ordered incommensurate antiferromagnetic with a Neacuteel temperature T-N coinciding with the superconducting ordering temperature T-c=40 K. The incommensurability value is consistent with a hole doping of n(h)approximate to 1>8 but in contrast to nonsuperoxygenated La2-xSrxCuO4 with hole doping close to n(h)approximate to 18 the magnetic-order parameter is not field dependent. We attribute this to the magnetic order being fully developed in LSCO+O as in the spin and charge ordered "stripe" compounds La1.48Nd0.40Sr0.12CuO4 and La7/8Ba1/8CuO4
Enhancement of long-range magnetic order by magnetic field in superconducting La2CuO(4+y)
We report a detailed study, using neutron scattering, transport and
magnetization measurements, of the interplay between superconducting (SC) and
spin density wave (SDW) order in La2CuO(4+y). Both kinds of order set in below
the same critical temperature. However, the SDW order grows with applied
magnetic field, whereas SC order is suppressed. Most importantly, the field
dependence of the SDW Bragg peak intensity has a cusp at zero field, as
predicted by a recent theory of competing SDW and SC order. This leads us to
conclude that there is a repulsive coupling between the two order parameters.
The question of whether the two kinds of order coexist or microscopically phase
separate is discussed.Comment: Version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. B. Improved discussion
in connection with the muSR result
Quasiparticle photoemission intensity in doped two-dimensional quantum antiferromagnets
Using the self-consistent Born approximation, and the corresponding wave
function of the magnetic polaron, we calculate the quasiparticle weight
corresponding to destruction of a real electron (in contrast to creation of a
spinless holon), as a funtion of wave vector for one hole in a generalized
model and the strong coupling limit of a generalized Hubbard model. The
results are in excellent agreement with those obtained by exact diagonalization
of a sufficiently large cluster. Only the Hubbard weigth compares very well
with photoemission measurements in Sr_2CuO_2Cl_2.Comment: 11 pages, latex, 3 figure
Qualitative understanding of the sign of t' asymmetry in the extended t-J Model and relevance for pairing properties
Numerical calculations illustrate the effect of the sign of the next
nearest-neighbor hopping term t' on the 2-hole properties of the t-t'-J model.
Working mainly on 2-leg ladders, in the -1.0 < t'/t < 1.0 regime, it is shown
that introducing t' in the t-J model is equivalent to effectively renormalizing
J, namely t' negative (positive) is equivalent to an effective t-J model with
smaller (bigger) J. This effect is present even at the level of a 2x2 plaquette
toy model, and was observed also in calculations on small square clusters.
Analyzing the transition probabilities of a hole-pair in the plaquette toy
model, it is argued that the coherent propagation of such hole-pair is enhanced
by a constructive interference between both t and t' for t'>0. This
interference is destructive for t'<0.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, to appear in PRB as a Rapid Communicatio
Neutron scattering study of the effects of dopant disorder on the superconductivity and magnetic order in stage-4 La_2CuO_{4+y}
We report neutron scattering measurements of the structure and magnetism of
stage-4 La_2CuO_{4+y} with T_c ~42 K. Our diffraction results on a single
crystal sample demonstrate that the excess oxygen dopants form a
three-dimensional ordered superlattice within the interstitial regions of the
crystal. The oxygen superlattice becomes disordered above T ~ 330 K, and a fast
rate of cooling can freeze-in the disordered-oxygen state. Hence, by
controlling the cooling rate, the degree of dopant disorder in our
La_2CuO_{4+y} crystal can be varied. We find that a higher degree of quenched
disorder reduces T_c by ~ 5 K relative to the ordered-oxygen state. At the same
time, the quenched disorder enhances the spin density wave order in a manner
analogous to the effects of an applied magnetic field.Comment: 4 figures included in text; submitted to PR
In-situ epitaxial growth of superconducting La-based bilayer cuprate thin films
We investigate the epitaxial growth of bilayer cuprate La2CaCu2O6+\delta
using pure ozone as an oxidant, and find that even the crystal with parent
composition without cation substitution can show metallic behavior with the aid
of epitaxial strain effect. The hole concentration is controlled simply by
excess-oxygen doping, and the films grown under the optimum conditions exhibit
superconductivity below 30 K. This is the first result on the superconductivity
of bilayer La2CaCu2O6+\delta induced purely by the excess oxygen.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, To appear in Phys. Rev. B, Rapid Communication
Theory for the excitation spectrum of High-T$_c superconductors : quasiparticle dispersion and shadows of the Fermi surface
Using a new method for the solution of the FLEX-equations, which allows the
determination of the self energy of the Hubbard
model on the real frequency axis, we calculate the doping dependence of the
quasi-particle excitations of High-T superconductors. We obtain new results
for the shadows of the Fermi surface, their dependence on the deformation of
the quasi particle dispersion, an anomalous -dependence of and a related violation of the Luttinger theorem.
This sheds new light on the influence of short range magnetic order on the low
energy excitations and its significance for photoemission experiments.Comment: 4 pages (REVTeX) with 3 figure
Dispersion of a single hole in the t-J model
The dispersion of a single hole in the t-J model obtained by the exact result
of 32 sites and the results obtained by self-consistent Born approximation and
the Green function Monte Carlo method can be simply derived by a mean-field
theory with d-RVB and antiferromagnetic order parameters. In addition, it
offers a simple explanation for the difference observed between those results.
The presence of the extended van Hove region at (pi,0) is a consequence of the
d-RVB pairing independenct of the antiferromagnetic order. Results including t'
and t" are also presented and explained consistently in a similar way.Comment: LaTex file, 5 pages with 5 embedded eps figure
Hubbard model versus t-J model: The one-particle spectrum
The origin of the apparent discrepancies between the one-particle spectra of
the Hubbard and t-J models is revealed: Wavefunction corrections, in addition
to the three-site terms, should supplement the bare t-J. In this way a
quantitative agreement between the two models is obtained, even for the
intermediate- values appropriate for the high-Tc cuprate superconductors.
Numerical results for clusters of up to 20 sites are presented. The momentum
dependence of the observed intensities in the photoemission spectra of
Sr2CuO2Cl2 are well described by this complete strong-coupling approach.Comment: 4 two-column RevTeX pages, including 4 Postscript figures. Uses epsf.
Accepted for publication in Physical Review B, Rapid Communicatio
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