Visualising the Charge and Cooper-Pair Density Waves in Cuprates

Stephen Edkins (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XVI, 187 Seiten

2018 | 1. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-88141-6 (ISBN)

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This thesis reports on the use of scanning tunnelling microscopy to elucidate the atomic-scale electronic structure of a charge density wave, revealing that it has a d-symmetry form factor, hitherto unobserved in nature. It then details the development of an entirely new class of scanned probe: the scanning Josephson tunnelling microscope. This scans the Josephson junction formed between a cuprate superconducting microscope tip and the surface of a cuprate sample, thereby imaging the superfluid density of the sample with nanometer resolution. This novel method is used to establish the existence of a spatially modulated superconducting condensate, something postulated theoretically over half a century ago but never previously observed.

Stephen Edkins graduated from Churchill College, University of Cambridge in 2012 with a degree in Natural Sciences. He then went on to complete a PhD in physics at the University of St. Andrews in 2016. Much of his doctoral research was completed at Cornell University in the group of Séamus Davis where he continued to perform postdoctoral research. Stephen is now the Karel Urbanek Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Applied Physics at Stanford University

Unconventional Superconductivity and Density Wave Order in Cuprates.- Spectroscopic-Imaging STM (SI-STM).- Sub-Lattice Segregated SI-STM in Cuprates.- Atomic-scale Electronic Structure of the Cuprate d -symmetry Form Factor Charge Density Wave.- The Scanned Josephson Tunnelling Microscope.- Pair Density Waves in Cuprates.- Detection of a Cooper-Pair Density Wave in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+d.- Summary and Future Directions.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.8.2018
Reihe/Serie	Springer Theses
Zusatzinfo	XVI, 187 p. 78 illus., 58 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	320 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie ► Analytische Chemie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Festkörperphysik
	Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
	Technik ► Maschinenbau
Schlagworte	Charge Density Waves in Cuprates • Cooper Pair Density Wave • d-symmetry Form Factor of CDW • Electronic Structure of CDW • Nanometer-scale Imaging • Scanned Josephson Tunnelling Microscopy (SJTM) • Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy (STM) • Spatially Modulated Superconducting Condensate
ISBN-10	3-319-88141-8 / 3319881418
ISBN-13	978-3-319-88141-6 / 9783319881416
Zustand	Neuware