Scaling Behaviour of Low-Temperature Orthorhombic Domains in Prototypical High-Temperature Superconductor LaBaCuO
arXiv:1909.10595 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.101.054104
Abstract
Translational/rotational symmetry breaking and recovery in condensed matter systems are closely related to exotic physical properties such as superconductivity (SC), magnetism, spin density waves (SDW) and charge density waves (CDW). The interplay between different order parameters is intricate and often subject to intense debate, as in the case of CDW order and superconductivity. In La1:875Ba0:125CuO4 (LBCO), the locations of CDW domains are found to be pinned on the nanometer size scale. Coherent X-ray diffraction techniques open routes to directly visualize the domain structures associated with these symmetry changes. We have pushed Bragg Coherent Diffractive Imaging (BCDI) into the cryogenic regime where most phase transitions in quantum materials reside. Utilizing BCDI, we image the structural evolution of LBCO microcrystal samples during the high-temperature-tetragonal (HTT) to low-temperature-orthorhombic (LTO) phase transition. Our results show the formation of LTO domains close to the transition temperature and how the domain size varies with temperature. The LTO domain size is shown to decrease with temperature and to be inversely proportional to the magnitude of the orthorhombic distortion. The number of domains follows the secondary order parameter (or orthorhombic strain) measurement with a critical exponent that is consistent with the 3D universality class.
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