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The amplitudes and the structure of the charge density wave in YBCO

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2016-09-16 v2 Superconductivity

Abstract

We find unknown ss- and dd-wave amplitudes of the recently discovered charge density wave (CDW) in underdoped cuprates. To do so we perform a combined analysis of experimental data for ortho-II YBa2_2Cu3_3Oy_{y}. The analysis includes data on nuclear magnetic resonance, resonant inelastic X-ray scattering, and hard X-ray diffraction. The amplitude of doping modulation found in our analysis is 3.51033.5\cdot 10^{-3} in a low magnetic field and T=60T=60K, the amplitude is 6.51036.5\cdot 10^{-3} in a magnetic field of 30T and T=1.3T=1.3K. The values are in units of elementary charge per unit cell of a CuO2_2 plane. We show that the data rule out a checkerboard pattern, and we also show that the data might rule out mechanisms of the CDW which do not include phonons.

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@article{arxiv.1604.01499,
  title  = {The amplitudes and the structure of the charge density wave in YBCO},
  author = {Yaroslav A. Kharkov and Oleg P. Sushkov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.01499},
  year   = {2016}
}

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Final version accepted to Scientific Reports