Strongly Correlated Charge Density Wave in La2−xSrxCuO4 Evidenced by Doping-Dependent Phonon Anomaly

The discovery of charge-density-wave-related effects in the resonant inelastic x-ray scattering spectra of cuprates holds the tantalizing promise of clarifying the interactions that stabilize the electronic order. Here, we report a comprehensive resonant inelastic x-ray scattering study of La2−xSrxC...

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Published in:	Physical review letters Vol. 124; no. 20; p. 1
Main Authors:	Lin, J Q, Miao, H, Mazzone, D G, Gu, G D, Nag, A, Walters, A C, García-Fernández, M, Barbour, A, Pelliciari, J, Jarrige, I, Oda, M, Kurosawa, K, Momono, N, Zhou, Ke-Jin, Bisogni, V, Liu, X, PDean, M P Dean
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	College Park American Physical Society 21-05-2020 American Physical Society (APS)
Subjects:	Charge density waves CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY Cuprates Doping Excitation spectra Fermi surfaces Inelastic scattering Phonons X-ray scattering
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Summary:	The discovery of charge-density-wave-related effects in the resonant inelastic x-ray scattering spectra of cuprates holds the tantalizing promise of clarifying the interactions that stabilize the electronic order. Here, we report a comprehensive resonant inelastic x-ray scattering study of La2−xSrxCuO4 finding that charge-density wave effects persist up to a remarkably high doping level of x=0.21 before disappearing at x=0.25. The inelastic excitation spectra remain essentially unchanged with doping despite crossing a topological transition in the Fermi surface. This indicates that the spectra contain little or no direct coupling to electronic excitations near the Fermi surface, rather they are dominated by the resonant cross section for phonons and charge-density-wave-induced phonon softening. We interpret our results in terms of a charge-density wave that is generated by strong correlations and a phonon response that is driven by the charge-density-wave-induced modification of the lattice.
Bibliography:	Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) SC0012704; 2016YFA0401000; 11934017; 112111KYSB20170059 BNL-216018-2020-JAAM ShanghaiTech University Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China (MOST) National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
ISSN:	0031-9007 1079-7114
DOI:	10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.207005