Little-Parks like oscillations in lightly doped cuprate superconductors.

ABSTRACT: Understanding the rich and competing electronic orders in cuprate superconductors may provide important insight into the mechanism of high-temperature superconductivity. Here, by measuring Bi₂Sr₂CaCu₂O_8+x in the extremely underdoped regime, we obtain evidence for a distinct type of ordering, which manifests itself as resistance oscillations at low magnetic fields (≤10 T) and at temperatures around the superconducting transition. By tuning the doping level p continuously, we reveal that these low-field oscillations occur only when p < 0.1. The oscillation amplitude increases with decreasing p but the oscillation period stays almost constant. We show that these low-field oscillations can be well described by assuming a periodic superconducting stru

SUBMITTER: Liao M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8921203 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature