Université de Fribourg

Microscopic gauge-invariant theory of the c-axis infrared response of bilayer cuprate superconductors and the origin of the superconductivity-induced absorption bands

Chaloupka, Jiří ; Bernhard, Christian ; Munzar, Dominik

In: Physical Review B, 2009, vol. 79, no. 18, p. 184513

We report on results of our theoretical study of the c-axis infrared conductivity of bilayer high-Tc cuprate superconductors using a microscopic model involving the bilayer-split (bonding and antibonding) bands. An emphasis is on the gauge invariance of the theory, which turns out to be essential for the physical understanding of the electrodynamics of these...

Université de Fribourg

X-ray study of structural domains in the near-surface region of SrTiO₃ substrates with Y0.6Pr0.4Ba₂Cu₃O₇/La2/3Ca1/3MnO₃ superlattices grown on top

Hoppler, Justin ; Stahn, J. ; Bouyanfif, Houssny ; Malik, Vivek Kumar ; Patterson, B. D. ; Willmott, P. R. ; Cristiani, G. ; Habermeier, H.-U. ; Bernhard, Christian

In: Physical Review B, 2008, vol. 78, no. 13, p. 134111

We investigated with synchrotron x-ray diffraction and reflectometry the formation of structural domains in the near-surface region of single crystalline SrTiO₃ (001) substrates with Y0.6Pr0.4Ba₂Cu₃O₇/La2/3Ca1/3MnO₃ superlattices grown on top. We find that the antiferrodistortive cubic to tetragonal transition, which occurs at...