Electron-phonon coupling reflecting dynamic charge inhomogeneity in copper-oxide superconductors

Details Electron-phonon coupling reflecting dynamic charge inhomogeneity in copper-oxide superconductors Electron-phonon coupling reflecting dynamic charge inhomogeneity in copper-oxide superconductors

2005-12-03

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0512063v2

Nature 440, 1170-1173 (2006)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

to appear in Nature, 16 pages, 4 figures, very minor changes in text and figures from previous version

Scientific paper

10.1038/nature04704

The attempt to understand cuprate superconductors is complicated by the presence of multiple strong interactions. While many believe that antiferromagnetism is important for the superconductivity, there has been revived interest in the role of electron-lattice coupling. The recently studied conventional superconductor MgB2 has a very strong electron-lattice coupling, involving a particular vibrational mode (phonon), that was predicted by standard theory and confirmed quantitatively by experiment. Here we present inelastic scattering measurements that show a similarly strong anomaly in the Cu-O bond-stretching phonon in the cuprate superconductors La2-xSrxCuO4 (with x=0.07, 0.15). This is in contrast to conventional theory, which does not predict such behavior. The anomaly is strongest in La1.875Ba0.125CuO4 and La1.48Nd0.4Sr0.12CuO4, compounds that exhibit spatially modulated charge and magnetic order, often called stripe order. It occurs at a wave vector corresponding to the charge order. These results suggest that this giant electron-phonon anomaly, which is absent in undoped and over-doped non-superconductors, is associated with charge inhomogeneity. It follows that electron-phonon coupling may be important to our understanding of superconductivity, although its contribution to the mechanism is likely to be indirect.

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