MuSR search for fluctuating loop currents in cuprates

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The origin of a mysterious pseudogap region in high-Tc superconductors is a challenging issue. It was proposed that the pseudogap is caused by a circulating-current order characterized by a unique long-range patten of loop currents in the CuO2 planes. Loop-current order is by now inferred in 5 different classes of symmetry-sensitive experiments: polarized neutron scattering, Kerr effect, bireferingence, dichroic ARPES, and second harmonic generation. However, local probes such as MuSR and NMR do not see the magnetic fields expected for such an order. These local probes have much longer time scales than the others. It has been suggested that the local magnetic fields may be motionally narrowed by fluctuations among the different possible directions of the loop-current order. We propose MuSR experiments to fairly definitively this possibility and also obtain the fluctuation time-scale.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.83673803
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/83673803
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Creator Mr Cheng Tan; Professor Pei-Chun Ho; Dr Pabitra Biswas; Mr Jian Zhang; Dr Kevin Huang; Mr Zhaofeng Ding; Dr Aidy Hillier; Dr Lei Shu; Professor Chandra Varma; Dr Douglas MacLaughlin
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2019
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2016-11-28T09:30:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2016-11-30T09:30:00Z