We study the electronic structure and superconductivity in a CuO_{2} monolayer grown recently on the d-wave cuprate superconductor Bi_{2}Sr_{2}CaCu_{2}O_{8+δ}. Density functional theory calculations indicate a significant charge transfer across the interface such that the CuO_{2} monolayer is heavily overdoped into the hole-rich regime yet inaccessible in bulk cuprates. We show that both the Cu d_{x^{2}-y^{2}} and d_{3z^{2}-r^{2}} orbitals become important and the Fermi surface contains one electron and one hole pocket associated with the two orbitals, respectively. Constructing a minimal correlated two-orbital model for the e_{g} complex, we show that the spin-orbital exchange interactions produce a nodeless superconductor with extended s-wave pairing symmetry and a pairing energy gap comparable to the bulk d-wave gap, in agreement with recent experiments. The findings point to a direction of realizing new high-T_{c} superconductors in ozone grown transition-metal-oxide monolayer heterostructures.
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Nano Lett
August 2023
Center for Correlated Electron Systems, Institute for Basic Science, Seoul 08826, Korea.
Copper-based high-temperature superconductors share a common feature in their crystal structure, which is the presence of a CuO plane, where superconductivity takes place. Therefore, important questions arise as to whether superconductivity can exist in a single layer of the CuO plane and, if so, how such superconductivity in a single CuO plane differs from that in a bulk cuprate system. To answer these questions, studies of the superconductivity in cuprate monolayers are necessary.
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July 2020
Department of Physics, Yancheng Institute of Technology, Yancheng 224051, People's Republic of China.
In this paper, we study theoretically the doping evolution behaviors of the magnetic excitations (MEs) in the monolayer CuOgrown on BiSrCaCuOsubstrate. For the undoped system, the MEs exhibit the low energy commensurate behavior around (,). They turn to be incommensurate when the system is slightly hole-doped.
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November 2019
State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics and Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Although copper oxide high-temperature superconductors constitute a complex and diverse material family, they all share a layered lattice structure. This curious fact prompts the question of whether high-temperature superconductivity can exist in an isolated monolayer of copper oxide, and if so, whether the two-dimensional superconductivity and various related phenomena differ from those of their three-dimensional counterparts. The answers may provide insights into the role of dimensionality in high-temperature superconductivity.
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January 2018
Surface and Interface Physics, Institute of Physics, Karl-Franzens University Graz , Universitätsplatz 5, 8010 Graz, Austria.
Mixed CuO(2 × 1)-CuWO layers on a Cu(110) surface have been prepared by the on-surface reaction of the CuO(2 × 1) surface oxide with adsorbed (WO) clusters. The adsorption and decomposition of methanol on these well-defined CuO-CuWO surfaces has been followed by high-resolution X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), high-resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy (HREELS), and temperature-programmed desorption (TPD) to assess the molecular surface species and their concentration, while the state of the surface oxide phases before and after methanol decomposition has been characterized by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), low energy electron diffraction (LEED), and XPS. Surface methoxy species form the primary methanol decomposition products, which desorb partly by recombination as methanol at 200-300 K or decompose into CH and possibly CO.
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