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Competing Striped Structures in La2CuO4+y

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High temperature superconductivity emerges in unique materials, like cuprates, that belong to the class of heterostructures at atomic limit, made of a superlattice of superconducting atomic layers intercalated by spacer layers. The physical properties of a strongly correlated electronic system, emerge from the competition between different phases with a resulting inhomogeneity from nanoscale to micron scale. Here, we focus on the spatial arrangements of two types of structural defects in the cuprate La2CuO4+y : (i) the local lattice distortions in the CuO2 active layers and (ii) the lattice distortions around the charged chemical dopants in the spacer layers. We use a new advanced microscopy method: scanning nano X-ray diffraction (nXRD). We show here that local lattice distortions form incommensurate nanoscale ripples spatially anticorrelated with puddles of self-organized chemical dopants in the spacer layers.

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  1. MESA, Institute for Nanotechnology University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500AE, Enschede, Netherlands

    Nicola Poccia

  2. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestraße 85, 22607, Hamburg, Germany

    Alessandro Ricci

  3. Institute of Crystallography, CNR, Via Salaria Km 29.3, Monterotondo Stazione, Roma, 00015, Italy

    Gaetano Campi

  4. RICMAS, Rome International Center for Materials Science Superstripes, Via dei Sabelli 119A, 00185, Roma, Italy

    A.-S. Caporale & Antonio Bianconi

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Poccia, N., Ricci, A., Campi, G. et al. Competing Striped Structures in La2CuO4+y . J Supercond Nov Magn 26, 2703–2708 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10948-013-2164-x

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