By studying the phase diagram of a cuprate, researchers from the SQUAP team at the MPQ laboratory, in collaboration with researchers from the LPS (CNRS/Univ. Paris-Sud), LNCMI (CNRS) and SPEC (CEA/CNRS), have demonstrated the existence of a microscopic link between the superconducting state and the redistribution of charges in the crystal (charge order), making a major breakthrough in the understanding of the physics of high temperature superconductors.
Genrecic phase diagram of cuprates.
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This work has been published in Nature Physics.
Contact:
Alain Sacuto (alain.sacuto@univ-paris-diderot.fr)
Reference:
Intimate link between charge density wave, pseudogap and superconducting energy scales in cuprates., B. Loret, N. Auvray, Y. Gallais, M. Cazayous, A. Forget, D. Colson, M.-H. Julien, I. Paul, M. Civelli et A. Sacuto, Nature Physics 15, 771 (2019)
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