a − b Anisotropy of the intra-unit-cell magnetic order in YBa$_2$ Cu$_3$O$_{6.6}$ - CEA - Université Paris-Saclay
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a − b Anisotropy of the intra-unit-cell magnetic order in YBa$_2$ Cu$_3$O$_{6.6}$

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Within the complex phase diagram of the hole-doped cuprates, seizing the nature of the mysterious pseudo-gap phase is essential to unravel the microscopic origin of high-temperature superconductivity. Below the pseudo-gap temperature T⋆ , evidences for intra-unit-cell orders breaking the 4-fold rotation symmetry have been provided by neutron diffraction and scanning tunneling spectroscopy. Using polarized neutron diffraction on a detwinned YBa$_2$ Cu$_3$O$_{6.6}$ sample, we here report a distinct a-b anisotropy of the intra-unit-cell magnetic structure factor below T⋆ , highlighting that intraunit-cell order in this material breaks the mirror symmetry of the CuO$_2 bilayers. This is likely to originate from a crisscrossed arrangement of loop currents within the CuO$_2$ bilayer, resulting in a bilayer mean toroidal axis along the b direction.
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cea-03011398 , version 1 (22-10-2024)

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Lucile Mangin-Thro, Yuan Li, Yvan Sidis, Philippe Bourges. a − b Anisotropy of the intra-unit-cell magnetic order in YBa$_2$ Cu$_3$O$_{6.6}$. Physical Review Letters, 2017, 118 (9), ⟨10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.097003⟩. ⟨cea-03011398⟩
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