Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2004-08-17
Nature 430, 650 (2004)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
10.1038/nature02774
The fundamental building block of the copper oxide superconductors is a Cu4O4 square plaquette. In most of these materials, the plaquettes are slightly distorted and form a rectangular lattice. An influential theory predicts that high-temperature superconductivity is nucleated in "stripes" aligned along one of the axes of this lattice. This theory had received strong support from experiments that appeared to indicate a one-dimensional character of the magnetic excitations in the high temperature superconductor YBa2Cu3O6.6. Here we report neutron scattering data on "untwinned" YBa2Cu3O6+x crystals, in which the orientation of the rectangular lattice is maintained throughout the entire volume. Contrary to the earlier claim, we demonstrate that the geometry of the magnetic fluctuations is two-dimensional. Rigid stripe arrays therefore appear to be ruled out over a wide range of doping levels in YBa2Cu3O6+x, but the data may be consistent with liquid-crystalline stripe order.
Bernhard Christian
Bourges Ph.
Chen Dong-Ping
Hinkov Vladimir
Ivanov Anatoly A.
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