A remarkable new electronic ground-state of a high-temperature superconductor oxide (YBa2Cu3O7−δ) is found when it is grown in-between layers of a specific manganite (Pr0.5La0.2Ca0.3MnO3). The superconductor in these ‘superconductor sandwiches’ apparently adopts an exotic granular-state due to an interaction with the manganite. Uniquely, a strong magnetic field recovers a more ‘customary’ superconducting state. Here we show how Raman spectroscopy, state-of-the-art THz ellipsometry, and transport measurements are being used to reveal the nature of this new ground-state. These measurements are shedding light on how the manganite and superconductor layers interact to cause such novel behaviour, however the exact mechanism remains unknown.
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