Visualising the Charge and Cooper-Pair Density Waves in Cuprates

By Stephen Edkins

Book 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 331965974X
• ISBN13: 9783319659749
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 187 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"