Coexistence of charged stripes and superconductivity in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+d

Details Coexistence of charged stripes and superconductivity in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+d Coexistence of charged stripes and superconductivity in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+d

2002-01-29

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0201546v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

16 pages, 4 figures (included). Revised version of original manuscript: typographical errors corrected, references added, scal

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One of the most important outstanding problems in condensed matter physics is determination the ground state of strongly correlated electron system, in particular high-temperature superconductors (HTSC). For these materials, theoretical1-6 and experimental7-13 evidence has been mounting in support of the possibility that their ground state exhibits spin and charge density waves (SDW and CDW), which are primarily one-dimensional (i.e. stripes) and which either compete with or promote superconductivity. Coexistence of CDW or SDW and superconductivity has previously been reported in the lower Tc materials7-9,12,13 and in the presence of large magnetic fields10,11. The absence of data showing stripes in the higher Tc materials in zero field has lent support to the idea that stripes are competing with high temperature superconductivity. However, here we show, using scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS), the existence of static striped density of electronic states in nearly optimally doped Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+d in zero field. This modulation is aligned with the Cu-O bonds, with a periodicity of four lattice constants, and exhibits features characteristic of a two-dimensional system of line objects. We further show that the density of states modulation manifests itself as a shift of states from above to below the superconducting gap. The fact that a single energy scale (i. e., the gap) appears for both superconductivity and stripes suggests that these two effects have the same origin.

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