Magnetic-field-induced charge-stripe order in the high-temperature superconductor yba2cu3oy

ABSTRACT Electronic charges introduced in copper-oxide (CuO2) planes generate high-transition-temperature (_T_c) superconductivity but, under special circumstances, they can also order into

filaments called stripes1. Whether an underlying tendency towards charge order is present in all copper oxides and whether this has any relationship with superconductivity are, however, two

highly controversial issues2,3. To uncover underlying electronic order, magnetic fields strong enough to destabilize superconductivity can be used. Such experiments, including quantum

oscillations4,5,6 in YBa2Cu3O_y_ (an extremely clean copper oxide in which charge order has not until now been observed) have suggested that superconductivity competes with spin, rather than

charge, order7,8,9. Here we report nuclear magnetic resonance measurements showing that high magnetic fields actually induce charge order, without spin order, in the CuO2 planes of

YBa2Cu3O_y_. The observed static, unidirectional, modulation of the charge density breaks translational symmetry, thus explaining quantum oscillation results, and we argue that it is most

probably the same 4_a_-periodic modulation as in stripe-ordered copper oxides1. That it develops only when superconductivity fades away and near the same 1/8 hole doping as in

La2−_x_Ba_x_CuO4 (ref. 1) suggests that charge order, although visibly pinned by CuO chains in YBa2Cu3O_y_, is an intrinsic propensity of the superconducting planes of high-_T_c copper

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this project, and L. Taillefer and S. Kivelson for discussions. We also thank P. Bourges, P. Carretta, S. Chakraverty, W. Chen, P. Hirschfeld, D. LeBoeuf, A. Millis, M. Norman, B. Ramshaw,

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AUTHORS AND AFFILIATIONS * Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques Intenses, UPR 3228, CNRS-UJF-UPS-INSA, 38042 Grenoble, France Tao Wu, Hadrien Mayaffre, Steffen Krämer, Mladen

Horvatić, Claude Berthier & Marc-Henri Julien * Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada W. N. Hardy, Ruixing

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T.W., H.M, S.K. and M.-H.J. performed the experiments. S.K. and M.H. developed and operated the high-field NMR facility. H.M. created software for spectrometers and data analysis. T.W. and

M.-H.J. analysed the data. C.B. provided conceptual advice and contributed to the planning of the project. M.H.J. wrote the paper and supervised the project. All authors discussed the

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