Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/tabRPK Visualising the Charge and Cooper-Pair Density Waves in Cuprates By: Stephen Edkins Publisher: Springer Print ISBN: 9783319659749, 331965974X eText ISBN: 9783319659756, 3319659758 Copyright year: 2017 Format: PDF Available from $ 129.00 USD SKU 9783319659756 This thesis reports on the use of scanning tunnelling microscopy to elucidate the atomic-scale electronic structure of a charge density wave, revealing that it has a d-symmetry form factor, hitherto unobserved in nature. It then details the development of an entirely new class of scanned probe: the scanning Josephson tunnelling microscope. This scans the Josephson junction formed between a cuprate superconducting microscope tip and the surface of a cuprate sample, thereby imaging the superfluid density of the sample with nanometer resolution. This novel method is used to establish the existence of a spatially modulated superconducting condensate, something postulated theoretically over half a century ago but never previously observed.
