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Magic Doping Fractions for High-Temperature Superconductors

Seiki Komiya, Han-Dong Chen, Shou-Cheng Zhang, Yoichi Ando

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.207004 · Physical Review Letters

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Abstract

We report hole-doping dependence of the in-plane resistivity ρab in a cuprate superconductor La2−xSrxCuO4, carefully examined using a series of high-quality single crystals. Our detailed measurements find a tendency towards charge ordering at particular rational hole-doping fractions of 1/16, 3/32, 1/8, and 3/16. This observation appears to suggest a specific form of charge order and is most consistent with the recent theoretical prediction of the checkerboard-type ordering of the Cooper pairs at rational doping fractions x=(2m+1)/2n, with integers m and n.

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FormulaReported Tc (K)Pressure (GPa)Type
La2-xSrxCuO4

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—Pressure not reportedzero_resistance
Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ

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—Pressure not reportedunknown
Ca2-xNaxCuO2Cl2

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—Pressure not reportedunknown
La1.48Nd0.4Sr0.12CuO4

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—Pressure not reportedunknown

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