2011
DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.83.054507
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Magnetic vortex lattice in HgBa2CuO4+δobserved by small-angle neutron scattering

Abstract: We report the direct observation of the magnetic vortex lattice in the model high-temperature superconductor HgBa2CuO 4+δ . Using small-angle neutron scattering on high-quality crystals, we observe two equal domains of undistorted triangular vortex lattices well-aligned with the tetragonal crystallographic axes. The signal decreases rapidly with increasing magnetic field and vanishes above 0.4 Tesla, which we attribute to a crossover from a three-dimensional to a two-dimensional vortex system, similar to previ… Show more

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“…Materials where such a field-driven hexagonal to square VL transition have been observed includes members of the nickelborocarbide superconductors [14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22], V 3 Si [23,24], LSCO [25], CeCoIn 5 [26,27], YBCO [4,28], and NCCO [29]. Notable exceptions to this are BSCCO [30,31], and more recently HgBa 2 CuO 4+δ [32]. However, in these two compounds the scattered intensity decreases very rapidly with increasing field, greatly limiting the range of vortex densities over which the VL can be imaged.…”
Section: Vortex Lattice Structurementioning
confidence: 91%
“…Materials where such a field-driven hexagonal to square VL transition have been observed includes members of the nickelborocarbide superconductors [14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22], V 3 Si [23,24], LSCO [25], CeCoIn 5 [26,27], YBCO [4,28], and NCCO [29]. Notable exceptions to this are BSCCO [30,31], and more recently HgBa 2 CuO 4+δ [32]. However, in these two compounds the scattered intensity decreases very rapidly with increasing field, greatly limiting the range of vortex densities over which the VL can be imaged.…”
Section: Vortex Lattice Structurementioning
confidence: 91%
“…Such crystals are of rather high quality, as indicated by the high attainable ZFC/FC ratio 34 and the ability to observe the vortex lattice via small-angle neutron scattering. 35 Four underdoped Hg1201 crystals had been studied in our previous work. 5 The new data reported here were obtained on a fifth underdoped crystal with T c = 75 ± 2 K and an array of about 40 nearly optimally doped crystals (T c = 95 ± 2 K, same as in ref.…”
Section: Experimental Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Samples of comparable quality to those investigated in the present work have enabled stateof-the-art electronic Raman scattering, optical spectroscopy, and hard x-ray experiments [13,[31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39]. Such Hg1201 samples feature a small density of vortex pinning centers [40], which has enabled the observation of a magnetic vortex lattice [41]. This paper is organized as follows: In Sec.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%