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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
卷 116, 期 22, 页码 10691-10697出版社
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1817134116
关键词
disorder; superconductivity; charge order; pair-density wave; cuprates
资金
- US Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, Materials Sciences and Engineering Division
- Center for Emergent Superconductivity, an Energy Frontier Research Center - US DOE, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences
- US DOE, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering [DE-SC0012704]
- DOE Office of Science [DE-AC02-06CH11357]
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- National Institutes of Health/National Institute of General Medical Sciences under NSF [DMR-1332208]
With the discovery of charge-density waves (CDWs) in most members of the cuprate high-temperature superconductors, the interplay between superconductivity and CDWs has become a key point in the debate on the origin of high-temperature superconductivity. Some experiments in cuprates point toward a CDW state competing with superconductivity, but others raise the possibility of a CDW-superconductivity intertwined order or more elusive pair-density waves (PDWs). Here, we have used proton irradiation to induce disorder in crystals of La1.875Ba0.125CuO4 and observed a striking 50% increase of T-c, accompanied by a suppression of the CDWs. This is in sharp contrast with the behavior expected of a d-wave superconductor, for which both magnetic and nonmagnetic defects should suppress T-c. Our results thus make an unambiguous case for the strong detrimental effect of the CDW on bulk superconductivity in La1.875Ba0.125CuO4. Using tunnel diode oscillator (TDO) measurements, we find indications for potential dynamic layer decoupling in a PDW phase. Our results establish irradiation-induced disorder as a particularly relevant tuning parameter for the many families of superconductors with coexisting density waves, which we demonstrate on superconductors such as the dichalcogenides and Lu5Ir4Si10.
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