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Ricci A, Poccia N, Campi G, Mishra S, Müller L, Joseph B, Shi B, Zozulya A, Buchholz M, Trabant C, Lee JCT, Viefhaus J, Goedkoop JB, Nugroho AA, Braden M, Roy S, Sprung M, Schüßler-Langeheine C. Measurement of Spin Dynamics in a Layered Nickelate Using X-Ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy: Evidence for Intrinsic Destabilization of Incommensurate Stripes at Low Temperatures. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2021; 127:057001. [PMID: 34397237 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.127.057001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2020] [Accepted: 05/10/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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We study the temporal stability of stripe-type spin order in a layered nickelate with x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy and observe fluctuations on timescales of tens of minutes over a wide temperature range. These fluctuations show an anomalous temperature dependence: they slow down at intermediate temperatures and speed up on both heating and cooling. This behavior appears to be directly connected with spatial correlations: stripes fluctuate slowly when stripe correlation lengths are large and become faster when spatial correlations decrease. A low-temperature decay of nickelate stripe correlations, reminiscent of what occurs in cuprates as a result of a competition between stripes and superconductivity, hence occurs via loss of both spatial and temporal correlations.
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- Alessandro Ricci
- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute for Metallic Materials, Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research IFW Dresden, 01069 Dresden, Germany
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- Institute of Crystallography, CNR, Via Salaria km. 29,3 - 00015 Monterotondo, Roma, Italy
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- Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- School of Materials Science and Technology, Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221005, India
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, Strada Statale 14 - km 163,5, AREA Science Park, I-34149 Basovizza, Trieste, Italy
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- Van der Waals-Zeeman Institute, University of Amsterdam, 1098 XH Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- II. Physikalisches Institut, Universität zu Köln, Zülpicher Straße 77, 50937 Köln, Germany
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- II. Physikalisches Institut, Universität zu Köln, Zülpicher Straße 77, 50937 Köln, Germany
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Albert-Einstein-Straße 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Sonoma State University, 1801 East Cotati Avenue, Rohnert Park, California 94928-3609, USA
- Department of Physics, Concordia College, 901 8th Street South, Moorhead, Minnesota 56562 USA
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Albert-Einstein-Straße 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Van der Waals-Zeeman Institute, University of Amsterdam, 1098 XH Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Institut Teknologi Bandung, Jalan Ganesha 10 Bandung, 40132, Indonesia
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- II. Physikalisches Institut, Universität zu Köln, Zülpicher Straße 77, 50937 Köln, Germany
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- Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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Direct Visualization of Spatial Inhomogeneity of Spin Stripes Order in La1.72Sr0.28NiO4. CONDENSED MATTER 2019. [DOI: 10.3390/condmat4030077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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In several strongly correlated electron systems, the short range ordering of defects, charge and local lattice distortions are found to show complex inhomogeneous spatial distributions. There is growing evidence that such inhomogeneity plays a fundamental role in unique functionality of quantum complex materials. La1.72Sr0.28NiO4 is a prototypical strongly correlated perovskite showing spin stripes order. In this work we present the spatial distribution of the spin order inhomogeneity by applying micro X-ray diffraction to La1.72Sr0.28NiO4, mapping the spin-density-wave order below the 120 K onset temperature. We find that the spin-density-wave order shows the formation of nanoscale puddles with large spatial fluctuations. The nano-puddle density changes on the microscopic scale forming a multiscale phase separation extending from nanoscale to micron scale with scale-free distribution. Indeed spin-density-wave striped puddles are disconnected by spatial regions with negligible spin-density-wave order. The present work highlights the complex spatial nanoscale phase separation of spin stripes in nickelate perovskites and opens new perspectives of local spin order control by strain.
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Bikondoa O, Bouchenoire L, Brown SD, Thompson PBJ, Wermeille D, Lucas CA, Cooper MJ, Hase TPA. XMaS @ the ESRF. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. SERIES A, MATHEMATICAL, PHYSICAL, AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES 2019; 377:20180237. [PMID: 31030656 PMCID: PMC6501888 DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2018.0237] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 02/27/2019] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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This paper describes the motivation for the design and construction of a beamline at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) for the use of UK material scientists. Although originally focused on the study of magnetic materials, the beamline has been running for 20 years and currently supports a very broad range of science as evidenced by the research topics highlighted in this article. We describe how the beamline will adapt to align with the ESRF's upgrade to a diffraction limited storage ring. This article is part of the theme issue 'Fifty years of synchrotron science: achievements and opportunities'.
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- Oier Bikondoa
- XMaS Beamline, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, Grenoble 38043, France
- Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
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- XMaS Beamline, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, Grenoble 38043, France
- Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZE, UK
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- XMaS Beamline, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, Grenoble 38043, France
- Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZE, UK
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- XMaS Beamline, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, Grenoble 38043, France
- Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZE, UK
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- XMaS Beamline, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, Grenoble 38043, France
- Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZE, UK
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- Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZE, UK
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Direct observation of dynamic charge stripes in La2-xSrxNiO4. Nat Commun 2014; 5:3467. [PMID: 24632780 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4467] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2013] [Accepted: 02/18/2014] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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The insulator-to-metal transition continues to be a challenging subject, especially when electronic correlations are strong. In layered compounds, such as La2-xSrxNiO4 and La2-xBaxCuO4, the doped charge carriers can segregate into periodically spaced charge stripes separating narrow domains of antiferromagnetic order. Although there have been theoretical proposals of dynamically fluctuating stripes, direct spectroscopic evidence of charge-stripe fluctuations has been lacking. Here we report the detection of critical lattice fluctuations, driven by charge-stripe correlations, in La2-xSrxNiO4 using inelastic neutron scattering. This scattering is detected at large momentum transfers where the magnetic form factor suppresses the spin fluctuation signal. The lattice fluctuations associated with the dynamic charge stripes are narrow in q and broad in energy. They are strongest near the charge-stripe melting temperature. Our results open the way towards the quantitative theory of dynamic stripes and for directly detecting dynamical charge stripes in other strongly correlated systems, including high-temperature superconductors such as La2-xSrxCuO4.
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Abeykoon AMM, Božin ES, Yin WG, Gu G, Hill JP, Tranquada JM, Billinge SJL. Evidence for short-range-ordered charge stripes far above the charge-ordering transition in La1.67Sr0.33NiO4. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2013; 111:096404. [PMID: 24033056 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.111.096404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2013] [Revised: 07/17/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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The temperature evolution of structural effects associated with charge order (CO) and spin order in La1.67Sr0.33NiO4 has been investigated using neutron powder diffraction. We report an anomalous shrinking of the c/a lattice parameter ratio that correlates with T(CO). The sign of this change can be explained by the change in interlayer Coulomb energy between the static-stripe-ordered state and the fluctuating-stripe-ordered state or the charge-disordered state. In addition, we identify a contribution to the mean-square displacements of Ni and in-plane O atoms whose width correlates quite well with the size of the pseudogap extracted from the reported optical conductivity, with a non-Debye-like component that persists below and well above T(CO). We infer that dynamic charge-stripe correlations survive to T∼2T(CO).
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- A M Milinda Abeykoon
- Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
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Coslovich G, Huber B, Lee WS, Chuang YD, Zhu Y, Sasagawa T, Hussain Z, Bechtel HA, Martin MC, Shen ZX, Schoenlein RW, Kaindl RA. Ultrafast charge localization in a stripe-phase nickelate. Nat Commun 2013; 4:2643. [PMID: 24153394 PMCID: PMC3826635 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3643] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2013] [Accepted: 09/19/2013] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Self-organized electronically ordered phases are a recurring feature in correlated materials, resulting in, for example, fluctuating charge stripes whose role in high-TC superconductivity is under debate. However, the relevant cause-effect relations between real-space charge correlations and low-energy excitations remain hidden in time-averaged studies. Here we reveal ultrafast charge localization and lattice vibrational coupling as dynamic precursors of stripe formation in the model compound La(1.75)Sr(0.25)NiO4, using ultrafast and equilibrium mid-infrared spectroscopy. The opening of a pseudogap at a crossover temperature T* far above long-range stripe formation establishes the onset of electronic localization, which is accompanied by an enhanced Fano asymmetry of Ni-O stretch vibrations. Ultrafast excitation triggers a sub-picosecond dynamics exposing the synchronous modulation of electron-phonon coupling and charge localization. These results illuminate the role of localization in forming the pseudogap in nickelates, opening a path to understanding this mysterious phase in a broad class of complex oxides.
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- G. Coslovich
- Materials Sciences Division, E. O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Materials Sciences Division, E. O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- SIMES, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Advanced Light Source, E. O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Materials Sciences Division, E. O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Materials and Structures Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Kanagawa 226-8503, Japan
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- Advanced Light Source, E. O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Advanced Light Source, E. O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Advanced Light Source, E. O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- SIMES, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Materials Sciences Division, E. O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Materials Sciences Division, E. O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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Rościszewski K, Oleś AM. Jahn-Teller mechanism of stripe formation in doped layered La(2-x)Sr(x)NiO4 nickelates. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2011; 23:265601. [PMID: 21673403 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/23/26/265601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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We introduce an effective model for e(g) electrons to describe quasi-two-dimensional layered La(2-x)Sr(x)NiO(4) nickelates and study it using correlated wavefunctions on 8 × 8 and 6 × 6 clusters. The effective Hamiltonian includes the kinetic energy, on-site Coulomb interactions for e(g) electrons (intraorbital U and Hund's exchange J(H)) and the coupling between e(g) electrons and Jahn-Teller distortions (static modes). The experimental ground state phases with inhomogeneous charge, spin and orbital order at the dopings x = 1/3 and 1/2 are reproduced very well by the model. Although the Jahn-Teller distortions are weak, we show that they play a crucial role and stabilize the observed cooperative charge, magnetic and orbital order in the form of a diagonal stripe phase at x = 1/3 doping and a chequerboard phase at x = 1/2 doping.
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- Krzysztof Rościszewski
- Marian Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Jagellonian University, Reymonta 4, PL-30059 Kraków, Poland.
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Isakovic AF, Evans PG, Kmetko J, Cicak K, Cai Z, Lai B, Thorne RE. Shear modulus and plasticity of a driven charge density wave. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2006; 96:046401. [PMID: 16486854 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.96.046401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2005] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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We have probed the effects of transverse variations in pinning strength on charge-density-wave (CDW) structure in NbSe3 by x-ray micro-beam diffraction. In ribbonlike crystals having a large longitudinal step in thickness, the CDW first depins on the thick side of the step, causing rotations of the CDW wave vector. By measuring these rotations as a function of position and electric field, the corresponding shear strains are determined, allowing the CDW's shear modulus to be estimated. These results demonstrate the usefulness of x-ray microdiffraction as a tool in studying collective dynamics in electronic crystals.
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- A F Isakovic
- Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
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Ishizaka K, Arima T, Murakami Y, Kajimoto R, Yoshizawa H, Nagaosa N, Tokura Y. Commensurate-incommensurate crossover of charge stripe in La2-xSrxNiO4 (x approximately 1/3). PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2004; 92:196404. [PMID: 15169426 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.92.196404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2003] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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The temperature (T) dependence of the charge-stripe order in La2-xSrxNiO4 has been investigated in the vicinity of x approximately 1/3 by synchrotron radiation x-ray diffraction measurements. With decreasing T, a prominent commensurate-incommensurate (C-IC) crossover is observed in the x<1/3 region, while for the x>1/3 region the IC order is dominant over the whole T range. Such a C-IC crossover is interpreted as the entropy-driven self-doping of the charge stripes, and its x dependence indicates the clear electron-hole asymmetry with the x=1/3 compound as the Mott insulator.
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- K Ishizaka
- Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
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Ghazi ME, Hatton PD. Jahn-Teller distortion ordering in single-crystal Nd1/2Sr1/2MnO3. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004. [DOI: 10.1002/pssc.200304405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Boothroyd AT, Freeman PG, Prabhakaran D, Hiess A, Enderle M, Kulda J, Altorfer F. Spin correlations among the charge carriers in an ordered stripe phase. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2003; 91:257201. [PMID: 14754145 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.91.257201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2003] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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We have observed a diffuse component to the low-energy magnetic excitation spectrum of stripe-ordered La(5/3)Sr(1/3)NiO4 probed by neutron inelastic scattering. The diffuse scattering forms a square pattern with sides parallel and perpendicular to the stripe directions. The signal is dispersive, with a maximum energy of approximately 10 meV. Probed at 2 meV, the scattering decreases in strength with increasing temperature, and is barely visible at 100 K. We argue that the signal originates from dynamic, quasi-one-dimensional, antiferromagnetic correlations among the stripe electrons.
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- A T Boothroyd
- Department of Physics, Oxford University, Oxford, OX1 3PU, United Kingdom
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Lee SH, Tranquada JM, Yamada K, Buttrey DJ, Li Q, Cheong SW. Freezing of a stripe liquid. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2002; 88:126401. [PMID: 11909483 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.88.126401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2001] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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The existence of a stripe-liquid phase in a layered nickelate, La(1.725)Sr(0.275)NiO(4), is demonstrated through neutron scattering measurements. We show that incommensurate magnetic fluctuations evolve continuously through the charge-ordering temperature, although an abrupt decrease in the effective damping energy is observed on cooling through the transition. The energy and momentum dependence of the magnetic scattering are parametrized with a damped-harmonic-oscillator model describing overdamped spin waves in the antiferromagnetic domains defined instantaneously by charge stripes.
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- S-H Lee
- NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, USA
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Abu-Shiekah IM, Bakharev O, Brom HB, Zaanen J. First time determination of the microscopic structure of a stripe phase: low temperature NMR in La(2)NiO(4.17). PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2001; 87:237201. [PMID: 11736473 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.87.237201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2001] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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The experimental observations of stripes in superconducting cuprates and insulating nickelates clearly show the modulation in charge and spin density. However, these have proven to be rather insensitive to the harmonic structure and (site or bond) ordering. Using (139)La NMR in La(2)NiO(4+delta) with delta = 0.17, we show that in the 1/3 hole doped nickelate below the freezing temperature the stripes are strongly solitonic and site ordered with Ni(3+) ions carrying S = 1/2 in the domain walls and Ni(2+) ions with S = 1 in the domains.
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- I M Abu-Shiekah
- Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9504, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
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