A Four Unit Cell Periodic Pattern of Quasi-Particle States Surrounding Vortex Cores in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+delta

JE Hoffman, EW Hudson, KM Lang, V Madhavan, H Eisaki, S Uchida, James C Davis

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Abstract

Scanning tunneling microscopy is used to image the additional quasi-particle states generated by quantized vortices in the high critical temperature superconductor Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+delta. They exhibit a copper-oxygen bond-oriented "checkerboard" pattern, with four unit cell (4a(o)) periodicity and a similar to30 angstrom decay length. These electronic modulations may be related to the magnetic field-induced, 8a(o) periodic, spin density modulations with decay length of similar to70 angstroms recently discovered in La1.84Sr0.16CuO4. The proposed explanation is a spin density wave localized surrounding each vortex core, General theoretical principles predict that, in the cuprates, a localized spin modulation of wavelength X should be associated with a corresponding electronic modulation of wavelength lambda/2, in good agreement with our observations.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)466-469
Number of pages4
JournalScience
Volume295
Issue number5554
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 18 Jan 2002

Keywords

  • HIGH-TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS
  • D-WAVE SUPERCONDUCTORS
  • ELECTRONIC-STRUCTURE
  • STRIPE PHASES
  • MODEL
  • LINES
  • LA2-XSRXCUO4
  • INSULATOR
  • D(X2-Y2)
  • LIQUID

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