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Visualising the Charge and Cooper-Pair Density Waves in Cuprates

Visualising the Charge and Cooper-Pair Density Waves in Cuprates

Hardcover

Series: Springer Theses

Technology & EngineeringGeneral SciencePhysics

ISBN10: 331965974X
ISBN13: 9783319659749
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Sep 11 2017
Pages: 187
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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