Tuning the ground state of cuprate high-critical-temperature superconducting thin films by nanofaceted substrates

Tuning the ground state of cuprate high-critical-temperature superconducting thin films by nanofaceted substrates | Research Square window.SnipcartSettings = { analytics: { enabled: false } }; (function() { var accessVector = localStorage.getItem('access_vector') || ''; window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; if (accessVector) { window.dataLayer.push({ user: { profile: { profileInfo: { snid: accessVector } } } }); } })(); (function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start':new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src='https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f);})(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-K279D39R'); Browse Preprints In Review Journals COVID-19 Preprints AJE Video Bytes Research Tools Research Promotion AJE Professional Editing AJE Rubriq About Preprint Platform In Review Editorial Policies Our Team Advisory Board Help Center Sign In Submit a Preprint Cite Share Download PDF Article Tuning the ground state of cuprate high-critical-temperature superconducting thin films by nanofaceted substrates Goetz Seibold, Riccardo Arpaia, Eric Wahlberg, Thilo Bauch, Alexei Kalaboukhov, and 5 more This is a preprint; it has not been peer reviewed by a journal. https://doi.org/ 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3976352/v1 This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License Status: Published Journal Publication published 09 Aug, 2024 Read the published version in Communications Materials → Version 1 posted You are reading this latest preprint version Abstract Anisotropic transport properties have been assessed in a number of cuprate superconductors, providing evidence for a nematic state. In our recent experiment we have shown that for ultra- thin YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7-δ (YBCO) films, where nematicity is induced via strain engineering, there is a suppression of charge density wave scattering along the orthorhombic a-axis and a concomitant enhancement of strange metal behavior along the b-axis~. Here we develop a microscopic model, that is based on the strong interaction between the substrate facets and the thin film, to account for the unconventional phenomenology. Based on the atomic force microscopy imaging of the substrates’ surface, the model is able to predict the absence (presence) of nematicity and the resulting transport properties in films grown on SrTiO 3 (MgO) substrates. Our result paves the way to new tuning capabilities of the ground state of HTS by substrate engineering. 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