Stripe-like correlations in the cuprates from oxygen NMR

2025/02/18 by Bandur, Daniel, Lee, Abigail, Tsankov, Stefan +2
#FOS: Physical sciences #Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2502.13045

Abstract

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) of planar oxygen, with its family independent phenomenology, is ideally suited to probe the nature of the quantum matter of superconducting cuprates. Here, with new experiments on La_2-xSr_xCuO₄, in particular also at high doping levels, we report on short-range stripe-like correlations between local charge and spin. Their amplitudes at room temperature are nearly independent of doping up to at least x=0.30, only their relative phase slips near x=1/4. Comparisons show the correlations to be generic to the cuprates. Despite the atomic scale length, the variations still resemble the average spin and charge relation, which is not expected from the otherwise simple, apparently metallic behavior, even far into the overdoped regime. Perhaps the phase slip is at the heart of a quantum critical point that demands pseudogap behavior towards lower doping levels in an otherwise strange metal.

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