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Comment on "Light-induced melting of competing stripe orders without introducing superconductivity in La$_{1.875}$Ba$_{0.125}$CuO$_4$" (arXiv:2306.07869v1) (2306.14438v1)

Published 26 Jun 2023 in cond-mat.supr-con and cond-mat.str-el

Abstract: In the manuscript arXiv:2306.07869v1, N. L. Wang and co-authors report the results of a near-infrared pump / terahertz probe study in the stripe-ordered cuprate La${1.875}$Ba${0.125}$CuO$4$. They measured a change in optical conductivity, but did not find signatures of transient superconductivity. From this observation they extrapolate that in all cuprates in which striped states have been excited with light, there must be no light-induced superconductivity. They conclude that "transient superconductivity cannot be induced by melting of the competing stripe orders with pump pulses whose photon energy is much higher than the superconducting gap of cuprates." Here we show that this extrapolation is unwarranted. First, the absence of light-induced superconductivity in this particular compound was already reported in a previous paper, which instead showed positive evidence for La${1.885}$Ba$_{0.115}$CuO$_4$. In addition, the experiment discussed here used photo-excitation with too low fluence and at a suboptimal wavelength. More broadly, a negative result in one compound is rarely compelling indication of the absence of an effect in an entire class of materials.

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