Electrodynamic properties of an artificial heterostructured superconducting cuprate
A. Perucchi, P. Di Pietro, S. Lupi, R. Sopracase, A. Tebano, G. Giovannetti, F. Petocchi, M. Capone, D. Di Castro
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.97.045114 · Physical Review B
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Abstract
We perform infrared conductivity measurements on a series of CaCuO2/SrTiO3 heterostructures made by the insulating cuprate CaCuO2 (CCO) and the insulating perovskite SrTiO3 (STO). We estimate the carrier density of various heterostructures with different levels of hole doping from the integral of the optical conductivity, and we measure the corresponding degree of correlation by estimating the ratio between the Drude weight and the integral of the infrared spectrum. The analysis demonstrates a large degree of correlation, which increases as the doping is reduced. The experimental results can be reproduced by dynamical mean-field theory calculations, which strongly support the role of correlations in the CCO/STO heterostructures and their similarities with the most common cuprate superconductors. Our results suggest that cuprate superconductors can be looked at as natural superlattices, where the peculiar characteristics of the native interfaces between the conducting block (containing the CuO2 planes) and the charge reservoir block are mainly responsible for the electrodynamic properties of these systems.
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| Formula | Reported Tc (K) | Pressure (GPa) | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| CaCuO2 Archive — visibility unverified Source-occurrence policy only; no material identity or catalogue acceptance is inferred from the formula. | 20.5 | Pressure not reported | unknown |
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