X-ray diffraction from pinned charge density waves

X - Ray Diffraction from Pinned Charge Density Waves

We present an x-ray study of doped charge density waves systems. When a 2k f-charge density wave is strongly pinned to impurities, an interference effect gives rise to an asymmetry between the intensities of the +2k f and −2k f satellite reflections. Moreover, profile asymmetry of the satellite reflections indicates the existence of Friedel oscillations (FOs) around the defects. We have studied...

Energy dispersive x-ray diffraction of charge density waves via chemical filtering

The microscopic structure of charge density waves in underdoped YBa2Cu3O6.54 revealed by X-ray diffraction.

Charge density wave (CDW) order appears throughout the underdoped high-temperature cuprate superconductors, but the underlying symmetry breaking and the origin of the CDW remain unclear. We use X-ray diffraction to determine the microscopic structure of the CDWs in an archetypical cuprate YBa2Cu3O6.54 at its superconducting transition temperature ∼ 60 K. We find that the CDWs in this material b...

Avalanches and the renormalization group for pinned charge-density waves.

The critical behavior of charge-density waves (CDWs) in the pinned phase is studied for applied fields increasing toward the threshold field, using recently developed renormalization group techniques and simulations of automaton models. Despite the existence of many metastable states in the pinned state of the CDW, the renormalization group treatment can be used successfully to find the diverge...

X-ray diffraction from microtubules.

X-ray diffraction patterns from sperm-tail microtubules indicate that subunits with a 40 to 50 A packing diameter form filaments, alternately half-staggered, parallel to the tubule axis. A 12-or a 13-stranded structure fits best with the X-ray diagram. The strongest bonding is that between units within a longitudinal filament; the weaker lateral interactions are disrupted by drying. Microtubule...