Infrared spectroscopy study of the in-plane response of YBa2Cu3O6.6 in magnetic fields up to 30 Tesla

Abstract

With Terahertz and Infrared spectroscopy we studied the in-plane response of an underdoped YBa2Cu3O6.6 single crystal with Tc=58(1) K in high magnetic fields up to B=30 Tesla applied along the c-axis. Our goal was to investigate the field-induced suppression of superconductivity and to observe the signatures of the three dimensional (3d) incommensurate copper charge density wave (Cu-CDW) which was previously shown to develop at such high magnetic fields. Our study confirms that a B-field in excess of 20 Tesla gives rise to a full suppression of the macroscopic response of the superconducting condensate. However, it reveals surprisingly weak signatures of the 3d Cu-CDW at high magnetic fields. At 30 Tesla there is only a weak reduction of the spectral weight of the Drude-response (by about 3%) that is accompanied by an enhancement of two narrow electronic modes around 90 and 240 cm-1, that are interpreted in terms of pinned phase modes of the CDW along the a- and b-direction, respectively, and of the so-called mid-infrared (MIR) band. The pinned phased modes and the MIR band are strong features already without magnetic field which suggests that prominent but short-ranged and slowly fluctuating (compared to the picosecond IR-time scale) CDW correlations exist all along, i.e., even at zero magnetic field.

arXiv comment12 pages, 3 figures

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