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Mean-Field Pairing Theory for the Charge-Stripe Phase of High-Temperature Cuprate Superconductors

Florian Loder, Siegfried Graser, Arno P. Kampf, Thilo Kopp

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.187001 · Physical Review Letters

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Abstract

Striped high-Tc superconductors such as La2−y−xNdySrxCuO4 and La2−xBaxCuO4 near x=1/8 show a fascinating competition between spin and charge order and superconductivity. A theory for these systems therefore has to capture both the spin correlations of an antiferromagnet and the pair correlations of a superconductor. For this purpose we present here an effective Hartree-Fock theory incorporating both electron pairing with finite center-of-mass momentum and antiferromagnetism. We show that this theory reproduces the key experimental features such as the formation of the antiferromagnetic stripe patterns at 7/8 band filling or the quasi-one-dimensional electronic structure observed by photoemission spectroscopy.

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FormulaReported Tc (K)Pressure (GPa)Type
La2-y-xNdySrxCuO4

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La2-xBaxCuO4

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4Pressure not reportedonset
La1.48Nd0.4Sr0.12CuO4

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La1.28Nd0.6Sr0.12CuO4

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—Pressure not reportedunknown
La15/8Ba1/8CuO4

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