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Dynamical spin response in cuprate superconductors from low-energy to high-energy

Superconductivity 2014-09-29 v2

Abstract

Within the framework of the kinetic energy driven superconducting mechanism, the dynamical spin response of cuprate superconductors is studied from low-energy to high-energy. The spin self-energy is evaluated explicitly in terms of the collective charge carrier modes in the particle-hole and particle-particle channels, and employed to calculate the dynamical spin structure factor. Our results show the existence of damped but well-defined dispersive spin excitations in the whole doping phase diagram. In particular, the low-energy spin excitations in the superconducting-state have an hour-glass-shaped dispersion, with commensurate resonance that appears in the superconducting-state only, while the low-energy incommensurate spin fluctuations can persist into the normal-state. The high-energy spin excitations in the superconducting-state on the other hand retain roughly constant energy as a function of doping, with spectral weights and dispersion relations comparable to those in the corresponding normal-state. The theory also shows that the unusual magnetic correlations in cuprate superconductors can be ascribed purely to the spin self-energy effects which arise directly from the charge carrier-spin interaction in the kinetic energy of the system.

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@article{arxiv.1405.7448,
  title  = {Dynamical spin response in cuprate superconductors from low-energy to high-energy},
  author = {Lulin Kuang and Yu Lan and Shiping Feng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.7448},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

14 pages, 9 figures, typos corrected and added discussions, accepted for publication