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Numerical Study of Transition to Stripe Phases in High Temperature Superconductors Under a Strong Magnetic Field

Yan Chen, H. Y. Chen, C. S. Ting

cond-mat.supr-conarXiv:cond-mat/0203283

Abstract

The nature of spin density wave (SDW) and charge density wave (CDW) in the mixed state of high Tc superconductors (HTS) is investigated by using the self-consistent Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations and an effective model Hamiltonian with competing SDW and d-wave superconductivity interactions. We show that there exists a critical onsite Coulomb interaction Uc. For optimally doped sample, a two dimensional SDW and CDW modulations are induced for U < Uc while SDW and CDW orders become antiferromagnetic (AF) and charge stripes for U > Uc. These stripe orders are stabilized and enhanced near the vortex cores. The wavelengths of the AF stripes and charge stripes are found respectively to be 8 a and 4 a with a as the lattice constant. We show that our results could be applied to understand several recent experiments on HTS.

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