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Local Magnetic Order vs. Superconductivity in a Layered Cuprate

Superconductivity 2009-10-31 v3 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We report on the phase diagram for charge-stripe order in La(1.6-x)Nd(0.4)Sr(x)CuO(4), determined by neutron and x-ray scattering studies and resistivity measurements. From an analysis of the in-plane resistivity motivated by recent nuclear-quadrupole-resonance studies, we conclude that the transition temperature for local charge ordering decreases monotonically with x, and hence that local antiferromagnetic order is uniquely correlated with the anomalous depression of superconductivity at x = 1/8. This result is consistent with theories in which superconductivity depends on the existence of charge-stripe correlations.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9910037,
  title  = {Local Magnetic Order vs. Superconductivity in a Layered Cuprate},
  author = {N. Ichikawa and S. Uchida and J. M. Tranquada and T. Niemoeller and P. M. Gehring and S. -H. Lee and J. R. Schneider},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9910037},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, 4 figures; introduction revised, Fig. 3 removed, last figure replaced