Nature Communications (Jul 2018)

Stabilization of three-dimensional charge order in YBa2Cu3O6+x via epitaxial growth

  • M. Bluschke,
  • A. Frano,
  • E. Schierle,
  • D. Putzky,
  • F. Ghorbani,
  • R. Ortiz,
  • H. Suzuki,
  • G. Christiani,
  • G. Logvenov,
  • E. Weschke,
  • R. J. Birgeneau,
  • E. H. da Silva Neto,
  • M. Minola,
  • S. Blanco-Canosa,
  • B. Keimer

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05434-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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In many cuprates the high temperature superconducting state competes with a charge ordered phase that has been difficult to investigate in detail. Here the authors show three-dimensional charge order can be stabilized in YBCO films and studied without using the high magnetic fields that are necessary in the bulk material.