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Title: Visualising the Charge and Cooper-Pair Density Waves in Cuprates
Author : Stephen Edkins
Release Date : January 31, 2017
Genre: Engineering,Books,Professional & Technical,Science & Nature,
Pages : * pages
Size : 8395 KB

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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.