Fig. 1: In-plane Hall coefficient RH across the T–H phase diagram of striped cuprates. | Nature Communications

Fig. 1: In-plane Hall coefficient RH across the TH phase diagram of striped cuprates.

From: Magnetic field reveals vanishing Hall response in the normal state of stripe-ordered cuprates

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a, b Regions of T and H with different signs of RH for La1.7Eu0.2Sr0.1CuO4 and La1.48Nd0.4Sr0.12CuO4, respectively. c, d Comparison of the results for RH to the other transport data3,4 for La1.7Eu0.2Sr0.1CuO4 and La1.48Nd0.4Sr0.12CuO4, respectively. Tc(H) (black squares): boundary of the vortex solid in which \({\rho }_{xx}\)(T < Tc) = 0 and RH = 0, as expected for a superconductor. The upper critical field Hc2(T) ~ Hpeak(T); Hpeak(T) (dark green dots) are the fields above which the magnetoresistance changes from positive to negative3,4. The low-T, viscous vortex liquid (VL) regime (light violet) is bounded by Tc(H) and, approximately, by Tpeak(H) (positions of the peak in \({\rho }_{xx}\)(T); open blue diamonds), H*(T) (crossover between non-Ohmic and Ohmic behavior3; open royal squares), or Hpeak(T); here the behavior is metallic (d\({\rho }_{xx}\)/dT>0) with \({\rho }_{xx}\)(T → 0) = 0 and RH = 0. The field-revealed normal state (blue) exhibits anomalous behavior: \({\rho }_{xx}\)(T) has an insulating, \({\mathrm{ln}}\,(1/T)\) dependence3,4, but RH = 0 despite the absence of superconductivity. At high T (yellow), RH>0 and drops to zero at T = T0(H) (magenta triangles). In the high-T VL regime (H < Hpeak; dark beige), RH becomes negative before vanishing at lower \(T={T}_{0}^{\prime}(H)\) (magenta squares), as the vortices become less mobile. The h/4e2 symbols (open brown diamonds) show the (T, H) values where the sheet resistance changes from R□/layer < RQ = h/4e2 at higher T, to R□/layer>RQ at lower T. Zero-field values of TSO and TCO are also shown; TPG ~ 175 K and ~ 150 K for La1.7Eu0.2Sr0.1CuO4 and La1.48Nd0.4Sr0.12CuO4, respectively55. All dashed lines guide the eye. In all panels, gray horizontal marks indicate measurement temperatures in different runs, the resolution of which defines vertical error bars for T0 and \({T}_{0}^{\prime}\); horizontal error bars reflect the uncertainty in defining \({T}_{0}^{\prime}\) within our experimental resolution (see Supplementary Fig. 3 for the raw RH(H) data).

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