Locally commensurate charge-density wave with three-unit-cell periodicity in YBa2Cu3Oy

oleh: Igor Vinograd, Rui Zhou, Michihiro Hirata, Tao Wu, Hadrien Mayaffre, Steffen Krämer, Ruixing Liang, W. N. Hardy, D. A. Bonn, Marc-Henri Julien

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2021-06-01

Deskripsi

Understanding cuprate superconductors requires better knowledge of the microscopic structure of their charge-density waves (CDW). Here, the authors report evidence that the long-range CDW order in YBa2Cu3Oy has a local commensurate period of three unit cells.