Ultrafast Time-resolved X-ray Scattering Reveals Diffusive Charge Order Dynamics in La Ba CuO

Overview

Journal Sci Adv

Specialties Biology
Science

Date 2019 Aug 28

PMID 31453340

Citations 8

Authors

Matteo Mitrano

Sangjun Lee

Ali A Husain

Luca Delacretaz

Minhui Zhu

Gilberto de la Pena Munoz

Stella X-L Sun

Young Il Joe

Alexander H Reid

Scott F Wandel

Giacomo Coslovich

William Schlotter

Tim van Driel

John Schneeloch

G D Gu

Sean Hartnoll

Nigel Goldenfeld

Peter Abbamonte

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Abstract

Charge order is universal among high- cuprates, but its relation to superconductivity is unclear. While static order competes with superconductivity, dynamic order may be favorable and even contribute to Cooper pairing. Using time-resolved resonant soft x-ray scattering at a free-electron laser, we show that the charge order in prototypical La Ba CuO exhibits transverse fluctuations at picosecond time scales. These sub-millielectron volt excitations propagate by Brownian-like diffusion and have an energy scale remarkably close to the superconducting . At sub-millielectron volt energy scales, the dynamics are governed by universal scaling laws defined by the propagation of topological defects. Our results show that charge order in La Ba CuO exhibits dynamics favorable to the in-plane superconducting tunneling and establish time-resolved x-rays as a means to study excitations at energy scales inaccessible to conventional scattering techniques.

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