Real-Time Observation of Cuprates Structural Dynamics by Ultrafast Electron Crystallography
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Carbone, F.; Gedik, Nuh; Lorenzana, J.; Zewail, A. H.
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The phonon-mediated attractive interaction between carriers leads to the Cooper pair formation in conventional superconductors. Despite decades of research, the glue holding Cooper pairs in high-temperature superconducting cuprates is still controversial, and the same is true for the relative involvement of structural and electronic degrees of freedom. Ultrafast electron crystallography (UEC) offers, through observation of spatiotemporally resolved diffraction, the means for determining structural dynamics and the possible role of electron-lattice interaction. A polarized femtosecond (fs) laser pulse excites the charge carriers, which relax through electron-electron and electron-phonon couplings, and the consequential structural distortion is followed diffracting fs electron pulses. In this paper, the recent findings obtained on cuprates are summarized. In particular, we discuss the strength and symmetry of the directional electron-phonon coupling in Bi(subscript 2)Sr(subscript 2)CaCu(subscript 20O(subscript 8+δ) (BSCCO), as well as the c-axis structural instability induced by near-infrared pulses in La9subscript 2)CuO(subscript 4) (LCO). The theoretical implications of these results are discussed with focus on the possibility of charge stripes being significant in accounting for the polarization anisotropy of BSCCO, and cohesion energy (Madelung) calculations being descriptive of the c-axis instability in LCO.
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2010-01Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of PhysicsJournal
Advances in Condensed Matter Physics
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Hindawi Publishing
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F. Carbone, N. Gedik, J. Lorenzana, and A. H. Zewail, “Real-Time Observation of Cuprates Structural Dynamics by Ultrafast Electron Crystallography,” Advances in Condensed Matter Physics, vol. 2010, Article ID 958618, 27 pages, 2010. doi:10.1155/2010/958618
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1687-8108
1687-8124