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SCIENCE CHINA-PHYSICS MECHANICS & ASTRONOMY
卷 64, 期 3, 页码 -出版社
SCIENCE PRESS
DOI: 10.1007/s11433-020-1615-y
关键词
high-temperature superconductors; nuclear magnetic resonance; nematic order; pseudogap
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11974405, 11674377, 11634015]
- Ministry of Science and Technology of China [2016YFA0300502, 2017YFA0302904]
- Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDB33010100]
Through O-17 nuclear magnetic resonance studies, it was found that there is symmetry breaking inside the pseudogap phase in YBa2Cu4O8 cuprate, providing microscopic evidence for intra-unit-cell electronic nematicity; the difference in quadrupole resonance frequency between the two oxygen sites remains unchanged below the pseudogap phase, indicating that the observed nematicity does not directly stem from local charge density modulation; a short-range charge density wave order was observed at lower temperatures, with additional broadening in the NMR spectra for the two oxygen sites.
Understanding the nature of the mysterious pseudogap phenomenon is one of the most important issues associated with cuprate high-T-c superconductors. Here, we report O-17 nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) studies on two planar oxygen sites in stoichiometric cuprate YBa2Cu4O8 to investigate the symmetry breaking inside the pseudogap phase. We observe that the Knight shifts of the two oxygen sites are identical at high temperatures but different below T-nem similar to 185 K, which is close to the pseudogap temperature T*. Our result provides a microscopic evidence for intra-unit-cell electronic nematicity. The difference in quadrupole resonance frequency between the two oxygen sites is unchanged below T-nem, which suggests that the observed nematicity does not directly stem from the local charge density modulation. Furthermore, a short-range charge density wave (CDW) order is observed below T similar or equal to 150 K. The additional broadening in the O-17-NMR spectra because of this CDW order is determined to be inequivalent for the two oxygen sites, which is similar to that observed in case of nematicity. These results suggest a possible connection between nematicity, CDW order, and pseudogap.
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