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Interplay between relaxational atomic fluctuations and charge density waves in La2−xSrxCuO4

L. Shen1,2,3,*, V. Esposito2,3, N. G. Burdet2,3, M. Zhu4, A. N. Petsch4, T. P. Croft4, S. P. Collins5, Z. Ren6, F. Westermeier6 et al.

M. Sprung6, S. M. Hayden4,†, J. J. Turner2,3,‡, and E. Blackburn1,§

  • 1Division of Synchrotron Radiation Research, Department of Physics, Lund University, SE-22100 Lund, Sweden
  • 2Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
  • 3Linac Coherent Light Source, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
  • 4H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TL, United Kingdom
  • 5Diamond Light Source Ltd., Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, United Kingdom
  • 6Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany

  • *lingjia.shen@sljus.lu.se
  • †S.Hayden@bristol.ac.uk
  • ‡joshuat@slac.stanford.edu
  • §elizabeth.blackburn@sljus.lu.se
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Phys. Rev. B 108, L201111 – Published 13 November, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.108.L201111

Abstract

In the cuprate superconductors, the spatial coherence of the charge density wave (CDW) state grows below a temperature TCDW, the origin of which is debated. Using x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy, we have studied the temporal atomic relaxation dynamics in La1.88Sr0.12CuO4 to shed light on this question. Cooling within an emergent structurally distorted phase, which favors the CDW modulation in symmetry and develops in two stages between 180 and 120 K, we observe a crossover from cooperativelike to incoherentlike relaxation dynamics at TCDW=75(10) K . We argue that, if the CDW is hosted by this distortion, the concomitant relaxational crossover and enhancement of CDW spatial coherence supports the interplay between relaxational atomic fluctuations and CDWs in materials of this class on quasistatic times cales.

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Phys. Rev. B 108, L201111– Published 13 November, 2023
  • Received 1 April 2022
  • Revised 14 March 2023
  • Accepted 24 October 2023
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