Tuning the ground state of cuprate superconducting thin films by nanofaceted substrates

Abstract Anisotropic transport properties have been assessed in a number of cuprate superconductors, providing evidence for a nematic state. We have recently shown that in ultra-thin YBa2Cu3O7−δ films, where nematicity is induced via strain engineering, there is a suppression of charge density wave...

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Main Authors: Giovanni Mirarchi, Riccardo Arpaia, Eric Wahlberg, Thilo Bauch, Alexei Kalaboukhov, Sergio Caprara, Carlo Di Castro, Marco Grilli, Floriana Lombardi, Götz Seibold
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2024-08-01
Series:Communications Materials
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s43246-024-00582-5