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Large response of charge stripes to uniaxial stress in La1.475Nd0.4Sr0.125CuO4

T. J. Boyle1,2,3,*, M. Walker1,*, A. Ruiz4,5,*, E. Schierle6, Z. Zhao1, F. Boschini7,8,9, R. Sutarto10, T. D. Boyko10, W. Moore1 et al.

N. Tamura11, F. He10, E. Weschke6, A. Gozar2,3, W. Peng12, A. C. Komarek12, A. Damascelli7,8, C. Schüßler-Langeheine6, A. Frano4,†, E. H. da Silva Neto1,2,3,‡, and S. Blanco-Canosa13,14,§

  • 1Department of Physics, University of California, Davis, Davis, California 95616, USA
  • 2Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
  • 3Energy Sciences Institute, Yale University, West Haven, Connecticut 06516, USA
  • 4Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California 92093, USA
  • 5Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
  • 6Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Albert-Einstein-Straße 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany
  • 7Quantum Matter Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6T 1Z4
  • 8Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6T 1Z1
  • 9Centre Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Varennes, Québec, Canada, J3X 1S2
  • 10Canadian Light Source, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, S7N 2V3
  • 11Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
  • 12Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Nöthnitzerstrasse 40, 01187 Dresden, Germany
  • 13Donostia International Physics Center, DIPC, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastian, Basque Country, Spain
  • 14IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, 48013 Bilbao, Spain

  • *These authors contributed equally to this work.
  • †afrano@ucsd.edu
  • ‡eduardo.dasilvaneto@yale.edu
  • §sblanco@dipc.org
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Phys. Rev. Research 3, L022004 – Published 9 April, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.L022004

Abstract

The La-based “214” cuprates host several symmetry-breaking phases, including superconductivity, charge and spin order in the form of stripes, and a structural orthorhombic-to-tetragonal phase transition. Therefore these materials are an ideal system to study the effects of uniaxial stress onto the various correlations that pervade the cuprate phase diagram. We report resonant x-ray scattering experiments on La1.475Nd0.4Sr0.125CuO4(LNSCO-125) that reveal a significant response of charge stripes to uniaxial tensile stress of ∼0.1GPa. These effects include a reduction of the onset temperature of stripes by ∼50K, a 29-K reduction of the low-temperature orthorhombic-to-tetragonal transition, competition between charge order and superconductivity, and a preference for stripes to form along the direction of applied stress. Altogether, we observe a dramatic response of the electronic properties of LNSCO-125 to a modest amount of uniaxial stress.

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Phys. Rev. Research 3, L022004– Published 9 April, 2021
  • Received 4 December 2020
  • Revised 2 March 2021
  • Accepted 17 March 2021
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