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@PHDTHESIS{Kuespert:642367,
author = {Kuespert, Julia},
othercontributors = {Chang, Johan and Moser, Simon and Janoschek, Marc},
title = {{C}ompeting {S}tates in the {U}nconventional
{S}uperconductor {L}a$_{2-x}${S}r$_x${C}u{O}$_4$},
school = {University of Zurich},
type = {Dissertation},
publisher = {University of Zurich},
reportid = {PUBDB-2025-05522},
pages = {127},
year = {2024},
note = {Dissertation, University of Zurich, 2024},
abstract = {In strongly correlated systems, phases and states are often
highly intertwined. New insights can be gained by
influencing the interplay of the phenomena, for example, by
temperature, magnetic field, or strain. Benefiting from all
three tuning knobs, we contributed to the research on the
intriguing phase diagram of (La-based) cuprates. The
experiments were mostly carried out at x-ray diffraction and
angle-resolved photoemission endstations of state-of-the-art
synchrotrons. The first pair of interacting states examined
was the superconducting gap and the pseudogap. In a
high-resolution angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy
study, we extract the evolution of the antinodal gap as a
function of temperature. The gap increases below the
pseudogap onset. From the linear decrease with temperature
below the superconducting transition at we deduce, that the
two orders are competing. Lowering the temperature,
integrated spectral weight reduces in the pseudogap state,
but starts to regain already before the onset of
superconductivity. Thus, superconductivity and the pseudogap
interact with a third energy scale, possibly linked to
charge order. Charge order upon application of compressive
pressure in LaSrCuO (LSCO) was investigated by diffraction
for the greater part of the here presented work. Stripe
order in LSCO manifests in the and planes, where are the
Miller indices. If pressure is applied along the Cu-O
direction, stripe order peaks enhance by a factor of two in
the direction perpendicular to the strain. They are
suppressed to the background in the direction along the
strain. Uniaxial pressure along the Cu-O direction lifts the
domain degeneracy of both spin and charge order domains.
This on one hand determines the fundamental symmetry of
charge and spin order to be uniaxial stripes instead of a
checkerboard structure. On the other hand, it confirms that
the two orders in LSCO are strongly intertwined. By
comparing experimentally measured and simulated diffraction
patterns, we showed, that the space group of LSCO in the
charge ordered state is not orthorhombic as the average
crystal structure, but monoclinic. In another hard x-ray
diffraction study, we applied pressure along the -axis of
LSCO . Within the superconducting phase, the charge order
amplitude raises with strain, while it is not affected in
the normal state. Adding a magnetic field along the -axis to
the system, we initially, without pressure, reproduce the
well-known augmentation of charge order below as
superconductivity is weakened. Charge order in LSCO with
strain along the -axis and fields up to 10,T is still
boosted within the superconducting phase. However, the
increase is lower than if there was solely the magnetic
field. The magnetic field does not have an effect in the
normal state. Our observations point towards uniaxial -axis
strain in LSCO coupling directly to the competing
interaction of superconductivity and charge order.},
cin = {DOOR ; HAS-User},
cid = {I:(DE-H253)HAS-User-20120731},
pnm = {6G3 - PETRA III (DESY) (POF4-6G3)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-6G3},
experiment = {EXP:(DE-H253)P-P21.1-20150101 /
EXP:(DE-H253)D-BW5-20150101},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)11},
doi = {10.5167/UZH-267112},
url = {https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/642367},
}