Quantum melting of the hole crystal in the spin ladder of Sr14-xCaxCu24O41

Details Quantum melting of the hole crystal in the spin ladder of Sr14-xCaxCu24O41 Quantum melting of the hole crystal in the spin ladder of Sr14-xCaxCu24O41

2005-11-21

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0511524v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 016403 (2006)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

4 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.016403

The "spin ladder" is a reduced-dimensional analogue of the high temperature superconductors that was predicted to exhibit both superconductivity and an electronic charge density wave or "hole crystal" (HC). Both phenomena have been observed in the doped spin ladder system Sr14-xCaxCu24O41 (SCCO), which at x=0 exhibits a HC which is commensurate at all temperatures. To investigate the effects of discommensuration we used resonant soft x-ray scattering (RSXS) to study SCCO as a function of doped hole density, d. The HC forms only with the commensurate wave vectors L_L = 1/5 and L_L = 1/3 and exhibits a simple temperature scaling T_(1/3) / T_(1/5) = 5/3. For irrational wave vectors the HC "melts", perhaps through the motion of topological defects carrying fractional charge.

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