Multiorbital charge-density wave excitations and concomitant phonon anomalies in Bi 2 Sr 2 LaCuO 6+δ
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Li, Jiemin; Nag, Abhishek; Pelliciari, Jonathan; Robarts, Hannah; Walters, Andrew; Garcia-Fernandez, Mirian; Eisaki, Hiroshi; Song, Dongjoon; Ding, Hong; Johnston, Steven; Comin, Riccardo; Zhou, Ke-Jin; ... Show more Show less
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© 2020 National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Charge-density waves (CDWs) are ubiquitous in underdoped cuprate superconductors. As a modulation of the valence electron density, CDWs in hole-doped cuprates possess both Cu-3d and O-2p orbital character owing to the strong hybridization of these orbitals near the Fermi level. Here, we investigate underdoped Bi2Sr1.4La0.6CuO6+δ using resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) and find that a short-range CDW exists at both Cu and O sublattices in the copper-oxide (CuO2) planes with a comparable periodicity and correlation length. Furthermore, we uncover bond-stretching and bond-buckling phonon anomalies concomitant to the CDWs. Comparing to slightly overdoped Bi2Sr1.8La0.2CuO6+δ, where neither CDWs nor phonon anomalies appear, we highlight that a sharp intensity anomaly is induced in the proximity of the CDW wavevector (QCDW) for the bond-buckling phonon, in concert with the diffused intensity enhancement of the bond-stretching phonon at wavevectors much greater than QCDW. Our results provide a comprehensive picture of the quasistatic CDWs, their dispersive excitations, and associated electron-phonon anomalies, which are key for understanding the competing electronic instabilities in cuprates.
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2020Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of PhysicsJournal
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences