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Long-ranged Cu-based order with $$d_{z^2}$$ orbital character at a YBa2Cu3O7/ manganite interface

Gaina, Roxana ; Nicholson, Christopher W. ; Rumo, Maxime ; Sarkar, Subhrangsu ; Khmaladze, Jarji ; Paris, Eugenio ; Tseng, Yi ; Zhang, Wenliang ; Asmara, Teguh C. ; McNally, Daniel ; Piamonteze, Cinthia ; Weschke, Eugen ; Schmitt, Thorsten ; Monney, Claude ; Bernhard, Christian

In: npj Quantum Materials, 2021, vol. 6, no. 1, p. 12

The interplay of nearly degenerate orders in quantum materials can lead to a myriad of emergent phases. A prominent case is that of the high-Tc cuprates for which the relationship between superconductivity and a short-ranged, incommensurate charge density wave in the CuO2 planes involving the dx2−y2 orbitals (Cu-CDW) is a subject of great current interest. Strong modifications of the...

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Mapping the unoccupied state dispersions in ${\mathrm{Ta}}_{2}{\mathrm{NiSe}}_{5}$ with resonant inelastic x-ray scattering

Monney, Claude ; Herzog, Marc ; Pulkkinen, Aki ; Huang, Y. ; Pelliciari, Jonathan ; Olalde-Velasco, P. ; Katayama, Naoyuk ; Nohara, Minoru ; Takagi, Hide ; Schmitt, Thorsten ; Mizokawa, Takashi

In: Physical Review B, 2020, vol. 102, no. 8, p. 085148

The transition metal chalcogenide Ta2NiSe5 undergoes a second-order phase transition at Tc=328K involving a small lattice distortion. Below Tc, a band gap at the center of its Brillouin zone increases up to about 0.35 eV. In this work, we study the electronic structure of Ta2NiSe5 in its low-temperature semiconducting phase, using resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) at the Ni L3 edge....

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Anisotropic magnetic excitations and incipient N\’eel order in $\mathrm{Ba}{({\mathrm{Fe}}_{1\ensuremath{-}x}{\mathrm{Mn}}_{x})}_{2}{\mathrm{As}}_{2}$

Garcia, Fernando A. ; Ivashko, Oleh ; McNally, Daniel E. ; Das, Lakshmi ; Piva, Mario M. ; Adriano, C. ; Pagliuso, Pascoal G. ; Chang, Johan ; Schmitt, Thorsten ; Monney, Claude

In: Physical Review B, 2019, vol. 99, no. 11, p. 115118

It is currently understood that high temperature superconductivity (SC) in the transition metal (M) substituted iron arsenides Ba(Fe1−xMx)2As2 is promoted by magnetic excitations with wave vectors (π,0) or (0,π). It is known that while a small amount of Co substitution lead to SC, the same does not occur for Mn for any value of x. In this work, magnetic excitations in the iron arsenides ...

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Coupled Cu and Mn charge and orbital orders in YBa₂Cu₃O₇/Nd 0.65 (Ca 1-y Sr y ) 0.35 MnO₃ multilayers

Perret, Edith ; Monney, Claude ; Johnston, S. ; Khmaladze, Jarji ; Lyzwa, Fryderyk ; Gaina, Roxana ; Dantz, M. ; Pelliciari, Jonathan ; Piamonteze, C. ; Mallett, B.P.P. ; Minola, M. ; Keimer, B. ; Schmitt, Thorsten ; Bernhard, Christian

In: Communications Physics, 2018, vol. 1, no. 1, p. 45

The observation of a charge density wave in the underdoped cuprate high Tc superconductors (Cu-CDW) raised a debate about its relationship with superconductivity. In bulk YBa2Cu3O7−δ the Cu-CDW is incipient and mainly pinned by defects. Nevertheless, a large magnetic field can induce a true long-range Cu- CDW order as it suppresses superconductivity. An enhanced Cu-CDW order was also ...

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Magnetic moment evolution and spin freezing in doped BaFe 2 As 2

Pelliciari, Jonathan ; Huang, Yaobo ; Ishii, Kenji ; Zhang, Chenglin ; Dai, Pengcheng ; Chen, Gen Fu ; Xing, Lingyi ; Wang, Xiancheng ; Jin, Changqing ; Ding, Hong ; Werner, Philipp ; Schmitt, Thorsten

In: Scientific Reports, 2017, vol. 7, no. 1, p. 8003

Fe-K β X-ray emission spectroscopy measurements reveal an asymmetric doping dependence of the magnetic moments μbare in electron- and hole-doped BaFe2As2. At low temperature, μbare is nearly constant in hole-doped samples, whereas it decreases upon electron doping. Increasing temperature substantially enhances μbare in the hole-doped region, which is naturally explained by the...