TY - GEN A1 - Tea, C. A1 - Castellani, Claudio A1 - Seibold, Götz A1 - Benfatto, Lara T1 - Nonrelativistic Dynamics of the Amplitude (Higgs) Mode in Superconductors T2 - Physical Review Letters Y1 - 2015 UR - https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.157002 U6 - https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.157002 SN - 1079-7114 VL - 115 SP - 157002 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Seibold, Götz A1 - Caprara, Sergio A1 - Grilli, Marco A1 - Raimondi, Roberto T1 - Intrinsic spin Hall effect in systems with striped spin-orbit coupling T2 - epl : a letters journal exploring the frontiers of physics KW - Condensed Matter Y1 - 2015 UR - http://epljournal.edpsciences.org/articles/epl/abs/2015/19/epl17411/epl17411.html U6 - https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/112/17004 SN - 1286-4854 VL - 112 IS - 1 SP - 17004-p1 EP - 17004-p6 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Seibold, Götz A1 - Benfatto, Lara A1 - Castellani, Claudio A1 - Lorenzana, José T1 - Amplitude, density, and current correlations of strongly disordered superconductors T2 - Physical Review B N2 - We investigate the disorder dependence of the static density, amplitude, and current correlations within the attractive Hubbard model supplemented with onsite disorder. It is found that strong disorder favors a decoupling of density and amplitude correlations due to the formation of superconducting (SC) islands. This emergent granularity also induces an enhancement of the density correlations on the SC islands whereas amplitude fluctuations are most pronounced in the “insulating” regions. While density and amplitude correlations are short ranged at strong disorder, we show that current correlations have a long-range tail due to the formation of percolative current paths in agreement with the constant behavior expected from the analysis of one-dimensional models. Y1 - 2015 UR - http://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.92.064512 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.92.064512 SN - 2469-9969 VL - 92 IS - 6 SP - 064512 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Bovenzi, Nicolo A1 - Finocchiaro, Francesca A1 - Scopigno, Nicantro A1 - Bucheli, Daniel A1 - Caprara, Sergio A1 - Seibold, Götz A1 - Grilli, Marco T1 - Possible Mechanisms of Electronic Phase Separation in Oxide Interfaces T2 - Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism N2 - LaAlO 3/SrTiO 3 and LaTiO 3/SrTiO 3 (LXO / STO) interfaces are known to host a strongly inhomogeneous (nearly) two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG). In this work, we present three unconventional electronic mechanisms of electronic phase separation (EPS) in a 2DEG as a possible source of inhomogeneity in oxide interfaces. Common to all three mechanisms is the dependence of some (interaction) potential on the 2DEGs density. We first consider a mechanism resulting from a sizable density-dependent Rashba spin-orbit coupling. Next, we point out that an EPS may also occur in the case of a density-dependent superconducting pairing interaction. Finally, we show that the confinement of the 2DEG to the interface by a density-dependent, self-consistent electrostatic potential can by itself cause an EPS. KW - Oxide interfaces KW - Superconductivity KW - Electronic phase separation Y1 - 2015 UR - http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10948-014-2903-7 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10948-014-2903-7 SN - 1557-1939 SN - 1557-1947 VL - 28 IS - 4 SP - 1273 EP - 1277 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Seibold, Götz A1 - Bucheli, Daniel A1 - Caprara, Sergio A1 - Grilli, Marco T1 - Phase separation and long-wavelength charge instabilities in spin-orbit coupled systems T2 - EPL Europhysics Letters N2 - We investigate a two-dimensional electron model with Rashba spin-orbit interaction where the coupling constant $g=g(n)$ depends on the electronic density. It is shown that this dependence may drive the system unstable towards a long-wavelength charge density wave (CDW) where the associated second-order instability occurs in close vicinity to global phase separation. For very low electron densities the CDW instability is nesting-induced and the modulation follows the Fermi momentum kF. At higher density the instability criterion becomes independent of kF and the system may become unstable in a broad momentum range. Finally, upon filling the upper spin-orbit split band, finite momentum instabilities disappear in favor of phase separation alone. We discuss our results with regard to the inhomogeneous phases observed at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 or LaTiO3/SrTiO3 interfaces. Y1 - 2015 UR - http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1209/0295-5075/109/17006;jsessionid=34AAE2057398BD7AE51C0C4719FC29DD.c2.iopscience.cld.iop.org U6 - https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/109/17006 SN - 1286-4854 VL - 109 IS - 1 SP - 17006 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Capati, Matteo A1 - Caprara, Sergio A1 - Di Castro, Carlo A1 - Grilli, Marco A1 - Seibold, Götz A1 - Lorenzana, José T1 - Electronic polymers and soft-matter-like broken symmetries in underdoped cuprates T2 - Nature Communications N2 - Empirical evidence in heavy fermion, pnictide and other systems suggests that unconventional superconductivity appears associated to some form of real-space electronic order. For the cuprates, despite several proposals, the emergence of order in the phase diagram between the commensurate antiferromagnetic state and the superconducting state is not well understood. Here we show that in this regime doped holes assemble in ‘electronic polymers’. Within a Monte Carlo study, we find that in clean systems by lowering the temperature the polymer melt condenses first in a smectic state and then in a Wigner crystal both with the addition of inversion symmetry breaking. Disorder blurs the positional order leaving a robust inversion symmetry breaking and a nematic order, accompanied by vector chiral spin order and with the persistence of a thermodynamic transition. Such electronic phases, whose properties are reminiscent of soft-matter physics, produce charge and spin responses in good accord with experiments. KW - Molecular electronics KW - Polymers KW - Superconducting properties and materials Y1 - 2015 UR - http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms8691 U6 - https://doi.org/doi:10.1038/ncomms8691 SN - 2041-1723 VL - 6 SP - 7691 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Markiewicz, Richard S. A1 - Seibold, Götz A1 - Lorenzana, José A1 - Bansil, Arun T1 - Gutzwiller charge phase diagram of cuprates, including electron–phonon coupling effects T2 - New Journal of Physics N2 - Besides significant electronic correlations, high-temperature superconductors also show a strong coupling of electrons to a number of lattice modes. Combined with the experimental detection of electronic inhomogeneities and ordering phenomena in many high-Tc compounds, these features raise the question as to what extent phonons are involved in the associated instabilities. Here we address this problem based on the Hubbard model including a coupling to phonons in order to capture several salient features of the phase diagram of hole-doped cuprates. Charge degrees of freedom, which are suppressed by the large Hubbard U near half-filling, are found to become active at a fairly low doping level. We find that possible charge order is mainly driven by Fermi surface nesting, with competition between a near-$(\pi ,\pi )$ order at low doping and antinodal nesting at higher doping, very similar to the momentum structure of magnetic fluctuations. The resulting nesting vectors are generally consistent with photoemission and tunneling observations, evidence for charge density wave order in YBa2Cu3O$_{7-\delta }$ including Kohn anomalies, and suggestions of competition between one- and two-q-vector nesting. Y1 - 2015 UR - http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/17/2/023074/meta U6 - https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/17/2/023074 SN - 1367-2630 VL - 17 IS - 2 SP - 023074 ER -