a-b Anisotropy of the Intra-Unit-Cell Magnetic Order in YBa_{2}Cu_{3}O_{6.6}. 2017

Lucile Mangin-Thro, and Yuan Li, and Yvan Sidis, and Philippe Bourges
Laboratoire Léon Brillouin, CEA-CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France.

Within the complex phase diagram of the hole-doped cuprates, seizing the nature of the mysterious pseudogap phase is essential for unraveling the microscopic origin of high-temperature superconductivity. Below the pseudogap temperature T^{⋆}, evidence for intra-unit-cell orders breaking the fourfold rotation symmetry have been provided by neutron diffraction and scanning tunneling spectroscopy. Using polarized neutron diffraction on a detwinned YBa_{2}Cu_{3}O_{6.6} sample, we here report a distinct a-b anisotropy of the intra-unit-cell magnetic structure factor below T^{⋆}, highlighting that intra-unit-cell order in this material breaks the mirror symmetry of the CuO_{2} bilayers. This is likely to originate from a crisscrossed arrangement of loop currents within the CuO_{2} bilayer, resulting in a bilayer mean toroidal axis along the b direction.

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