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cond-mat.supr-con2025

Quasiparticle interference in LiFeAs: Signature of inelastic tunneling through spin fluctuations

Shun Chi, Carolina A. Marques, Walter N. Hardy +5

Quasiparticle interference (QPI) is a powerful tool to characterize the symmetry of the superconducting order parameter in unconventional superconductors, by mapping the spatial de…

cond-mat.supr-con2025★ 1 cited

Thermal Hall conductivity in the strongest cuprate superconductor: Estimate of the mean free path in the trilayer cuprate HgBaCaCuO

Munkhtuguldur Altangerel, Quentin Barthélemy, Étienne Lefrançois +12

The thermal Hall conductivity of the trilayer cuprate HgBaCaCuO (Hg1223) - the superconductor with the highest critical temperature at ambient pressure -…

cond-mat.supr-con2023

Absence of Fermi surface reconstruction in pressure-driven overdoped YBCO

Stanley W. Tozer, William A. Coniglio, Tobias Förster +5

The evolution of the critical superconducting temperature and field, quantum oscillation frequencies and effective mass in underdoped YBaCuO (YBCO) crystals…

cond-mat.supr-con2023★ 1 cited

Searching for the signature of a pair density wave in YBaCuO using high energy X-ray diffraction

Elizabeth Blackburn, Oleh Ivashko, Emma Campillo +7

We have carried out a search for a pair density wave signature using high-energy X-ray diffraction in fields up to 16 T. We do not see evidence for a signal at the predicted waveve…

cond-mat.supr-con2021★ 11 cited

The Three-Dimensional Electronic Structure of LiFeAs: Strong-coupling Superconductivity and Topology in the Iron Pnictides

Ryan P. Day, MengXing Na, Manuel Zingl +15

Amongst the iron-based superconductors, LiFeAs is unrivalled in the simplicity of its crystal structure and phase diagram. However, our understanding of this canonical compound suf…

cond-mat.supr-con2019★ 23 cited

Orbital Symmetries of Charge Density Wave Order in YBa2Cu3O6+x

Christopher McMahon, A. J. Achkar, E. H. da Silva Neto +10

Charge density wave (CDW) order has been shown to compete and coexist with superconductivity in underdoped cuprates. Theoretical proposals for the CDW order include an unconvention…

cond-mat.supr-con2017★ 28 cited

Anisotropy of the Seebeck Coefficient in the Cuprate Superconductor YBaCuO: Fermi-Surface Reconstruction by Bidirectional Charge Order

O. Cyr-Choinière, S. Badoux, G. Grissonnanche +11

The Seebeck coefficient of the cuprate YBaCuO was measured in magnetic fields large enough to suppress superconductivity, at hole dopings and $p =…

cond-mat.supr-con2016

Broken rotational symmetry on the Fermi surface of a high-T superconductor

B. J. Ramshaw, N. Harrison, S. E. Sebastian +6

Broken fourfold rotational (C) symmetry is observed in the experimental properties of several classes of unconventional superconductors. It has been proposed that this symmetry…

cond-mat.supr-con2016★ 13 cited

Investigation of potential fluctuating intra-unit cell magnetic order in cuprates by muon spin relaxation

A. Pal, K. Akintola, M. Potma +6

We report low temperature muon spin relaxation (muSR) measurements of the high-transition-temperature (Tc) cuprate superconductors Bi{2+x}Sr{2-x}CaCu2O{8+δ} and YBa2Cu3O6.57, aimed…

cond-mat.supr-con2015★ 406 cited

Change of carrier density at the pseudogap critical point of a cuprate superconductor

S. Badoux, W. Tabis, F. Laliberté +10

The pseudogap is a central puzzle of cuprate superconductors. Its connection to the Mott insulator at low doping remains ambiguous and its relation to the charge order that rec…

cond-mat.supr-con2015★ 10 cited

Magnetization of underdoped YBaCuO above the irreversibility field

Jing Fei Yu, B. J. Ramshaw, I. Kokanović +9

Torque magnetization measurements on YBaCuO (YBCO) at doping (), in DC fields () up to 33 T and temperatures down to 4.5 K, show that weak diamagne…

cond-mat.supr-con2015★ 89 cited

Two types of nematicity in the phase diagram of the cuprate superconductor YBaCuO

O. Cyr-Choinière, G. Grissonnanche, S. Badoux +6

Nematicity has emerged as a key feature of cuprate superconductors, but its link to other fundamental properties such as superconductivity, charge order and the pseudogap remains u…

cond-mat.supr-con2015★ 40 cited

Wiedemann-Franz law in the underdoped cuprate superconductor YBa2Cu3Oy

G. Grissonnanche, F. Laliberte, S. Dufour-Beausejour +16

The recent detection of charge-density modulations in YBa2Cu3Oy and other cuprate superconductors raises new questions about the normal state of underdoped cuprates. In one class o…

cond-mat.supr-con2015★ 54 cited

Sensitivity of to pressure and magnetic field in the cuprate superconductor YBaCuO: evidence of charge order suppression by pressure

O. Cyr-Choinière, D. LeBoeuf, S. Badoux +7

Cuprate superconductors have a universal tendency to form charge density-wave (CDW) order which competes with superconductivity and is strongest at a doping . Here w…

cond-mat.supr-con2014★ 67 cited

Evidence for a small hole pocket in the Fermi surface of underdoped YBa2Cu3Oy

N. Doiron-Leyraud, S. Badoux, S. Rene de Cotret +13

The Fermi surface of a metal is the fundamental basis from which its properties can be understood. In underdoped cuprate superconductors, the Fermi surface undergoes a reconstructi…

cond-mat.supr-con2014

Thermodynamic signature of a magnetic-field-driven phase transition within the superconducting state of an underdoped high-temperature superconductor

J. B. Kemper, O. Vafek, J. B. Betts +5

More than a quarter century after the discovery of the high temperature superconductor (HTS) YBaCuO (YBCO) studies continue to uncover complexity in its phase diagr…

cond-mat.supr-con2014★ 13 cited

Disorder induced power-law response of a superconducting vortex on a plane

N. Shapira, Y. Lamhot, O. Shpielberg +6

We report drive-response experiments on individual superconducting vortices on a plane, a realization for a 1+1-dimensional directed polymer in random media. For this we use magnet…

cond-mat.supr-con2013★ 49 cited

Sign inversion in the superconducting order parameter of LiFeAs inferred from Bogoliubov quasiparticle interference

Shun Chi, S. Johnston, G. Levy +10

Quasiparticle interference (QPI) by means of scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy (STM/STS), angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), and multi-orbital tight bind-…

cond-mat.supr-con2013★ 238 cited

Direct measurement of the upper critical field in a cuprate superconductor

G. Grissonnanche, O. Cyr-Choiniere, F. Laliberte +20

The upper critical field Hc2 is a fundamental measure of the pairing strength, yet there is no agreement on its magnitude and doping dependence in cuprate superconductors. We have…

cond-mat.supr-con2012★ 230 cited

Thermodynamic phase diagram of static charge order in underdoped YBCO

David LeBoeuf, S. Krämer, W. N. Hardy +3

The interplay between superconductivity and any other competing order is an essential part of the long-standing debate on the origin of high temperature superconductivity in cuprat…

cond-mat.supr-con2012★ 175 cited

Bounding the pseudogap with a line of phase transitions in YBCO cuprate superconductors

Arkady Shekhter, B. J. Ramshaw, Ruixing Liang +7

Close to optimal doping, the copper oxide superconductors show 'strange metal' behavior, suggestive of strong fluctuations associated with a quantum critical point. Such a critical…

cond-mat.supr-con2012★ 1.1k cited

Direct observation of competition between superconductivity and charge density wave order in YBa2Cu3Oy

J. Chang, E. Blackburn, A. T. Holmes +10

Superconductivity often emerges in the proximity of, or in competition with, symmetry breaking ground states such as antiferromagnetism or charge density waves (CDW)1-5. A number o…

cond-mat.supr-con2012★ 54 cited

Bound States of Defects in Superconducting LiFeAs Studied by Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy

S. Grothe, Shun Chi, P. Dosanjh +5

Defects in LiFeAs are studied by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and spectroscopy (STS). Topographic images of the five predominant defects allow the identification of their po…

cond-mat.supr-con2011★ 20 cited

Coherent c-axis transport in the underdoped cuprate superconductor YBCO

B. Vignolle, B. J. Ramshaw, James Day +7

The electrical resistivity rho_c of the underdoped cuprate superconductor YBCO was measured perpendicular to the CuO_2 planes on ultra-high quality single crystals in magnetic fiel…