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Magnetic resonance in the cuprates -- exciton, plasmon, or \pi-mode

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2008-12-16 v1

Abstract

We re-analyzed the issue whether the resonance peak observed in neutron scattering experiments on the cuprates is an exciton, a \pi-resonance, or a magnetic plasmon. We considered a toy model with on-cite Hubbard U and nearest-neighbor interactions in both charge and spin channels. We found that the resonance is predominantly an exciton, even if magnetic interaction is absent and d-wave pairing originates from attractive density-density interaction. Our results indicate that one cannot distinguish between spin and charge-mediated pairing interactions by just looking at the resonance peak in the dynamic spin susceptibility.

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@article{arxiv.0812.2697,
  title  = {Magnetic resonance in the cuprates -- exciton, plasmon, or \pi-mode},
  author = {Zhihao Hao and Andrey V. Chubukov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.2697},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

5 pp, 5 figures, submitted to PRB