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Melting of Charge Stripes in Vibrationally Driven La1.875Ba0.125CuO4 : Assessing the Respective Roles of Electronic and Lattice Order in Frustrated Superconductors

Published inPhysical review letters, vol. 112, no. 15, 157002
Publication date2014-04-17
First online date2014-04-17
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We report femtosecond resonant soft x-ray diffraction measurements of the dynamics of the charge order and of the crystal lattice in nonsuperconducting, stripe-ordered La 1.875 Ba 0.125 CuO 4 . Excitation of the in-plane Cu-O stretching phonon with a midinfrared pulse has been previously shown to induce a transient superconducting state in the closely related compound La 1.675 Eu 0.2 Sr 0.125 CuO 4 . In La 1.875 Ba 0.125 CuO 4 , we find that the charge stripe order melts promptly on a subpicosecond time scale. Surprisingly, the low temperature tetragonal (LTT) distortion is only weakly reduced, reacting on significantly longer time scales that do not correlate with light-induced superconductivity. This experiment suggests that charge modulations alone, and not the LTT distortion, prevent superconductivity in equilibrium.

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FÖRST, M. et al. Melting of Charge Stripes in Vibrationally Driven La1.875Ba0.125CuO4 : Assessing the Respective Roles of Electronic and Lattice Order in Frustrated Superconductors. In: Physical review letters, 2014, vol. 112, n° 15, p. 157002. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.157002
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