English

Spin resonance in the d-wave superconductor CeCoIn5

Superconductivity 2009-11-13 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

Neutron scattering is used to probe antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations in the d-wave heavy fermion superconductor CeCoIn5_{5} (Tc_{c}=2.3 K). Superconductivity develops from a state with slow (Γ\hbar\Gamma=0.3 ±\pm 0.15 meV) commensurate (Q0{\bf{Q_0}}=(1/2,1/2,1/2)) antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations and nearly isotropic spin correlations. The characteristic wavevector in CeCoIn5_{5} is the same as CeIn3_{3} but differs from the incommensurate wavevector measured in antiferromagnetically ordered CeRhIn5_{5}. A sharp spin resonance (Γ<0.07\hbar\Gamma<0.07 meV) at ω\hbar \omega = 0.60 ±\pm 0.03 meV develops in the superconducting state removing spectral weight from low-energy transfers. The presence of a resonance peak is indicative of strong coupling between f-electron magnetism and superconductivity and consistent with a d-wave gap order parameter satisfying Δ(q+Q0)=Δ(q)\Delta({\bf q+Q_0})=-\Delta({\bf q}).

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.0712.0172,
  title  = {Spin resonance in the d-wave superconductor CeCoIn5},
  author = {C. Stock and C. Broholm and J. Hudis and H. J. Kang and C. Petrovic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0712.0172},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

(5 pages, 4 figures, to be published in Phys. Rev. Lett.)

R2 v1 2026-06-21T09:49:34.803Z