Visualising the Charge and Cooper-Pair Density Waves in Cuprates
Overview
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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- ISBN-13: 9783319659749
- ISBN-10: 331965974X
- Publisher: Springer
- Publish Date: September 2017
- Dimensions: 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.02 pounds
- Page Count: 187
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