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Structural effect on the static spin and charge correlations in La$_{1.875}$Ba$_{0.125-x}$Sr$_{x}$CuO$_{4}$

Superconductivity 2009-11-07 v3

Abstract

We report the results of elastic neutron scattering measurements performed on 1/8-hole doped La1.875_{1.875}Ba0.125x_{0.125-x}Srx_{x}CuO4_{4} single crystals with {\it x}=0.05, 0.06, 0.075 and 0.085. In the low-temperature less-orthorhombic (LTLO, {\it Pccn} symmetry) phase, the charge-density-wave (CDW) and spin-density-wave (SDW) wavevectors were found to tilt in a low-symmetric direction with one-dimensional anisotropy in the CuO2_{2} plane, while they were aligned along the high-symmetry axis in the low-temperature tetragonal (LTT, {\it P}42_2/{\it ncm} symmetry) phase. The coincident direction of two wavevectors suggests a close relation between CDW and SDW orders. The SDW wavevector systematically deviates from the Cu-O bond direction in the LTLO phase upon Sr substitution and the tilt angle in the LTLO phase is smaller than that in the low-temperature orthorhombic phase (LTO, {\it B}{\it mab} symmetry) with comparable in-plane orthorhombic distortion. These results demonstrate a correlation between the corrugated pattern of CuO2_{2} plane and the deviations.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0203321,
  title  = {Structural effect on the static spin and charge correlations in La$_{1.875}$Ba$_{0.125-x}$Sr$_{x}$CuO$_{4}$},
  author = {M. Fujita and H. Goka and K. Yamada and M. Matsuda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0203321},
  year   = {2009}
}

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6 pages, 7figures