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Two Dimensional Incommensurate and Three Dimensional Commensurate Magnetic Order and Fluctuations in $La_{2-x}Ba_{x}CuO_{4}$

Superconductivity 2016-11-26 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We present neutron scattering measurements on single crystals of lightly doped La2xBaxCuO4La_{2-x}Ba_{x}CuO_{4}, with 0x?0.0350 \leq x \leq? 0.035. These reveal the evolution of the magnetism in this prototypical doped Mott insulator from a three dimensional (3D) commensurate (C) antiferromagnetic ground state, which orders at a relatively high TN, to a two dimensional (2D) incommensurate (IC) ground state with finite ranged static correlations, which appear below a relatively low effective TN. At low temperatures, the 2D IC magnetism co-exists with the 3D C magnetism for doping concentrations as low as ? 0.0125. We find no signal of a 3D C magnetic ground state by x \sim? 0.025, consistent with the upper limit of x \sim? 0.02 observed in the sister family of doped Mott insulators, La2xSrxCuO4La_{2-x}Sr_{x}CuO_{4}. The 2D IC ground states observed for 0.0125x0.0350.0125 \leq x \leq 0.035 are diagonal, and are rotated by 45 degrees within the orthorhombic basal plane compared with those previously reported for samples with superconducting ground states: La2xBaxCuO4La_{2-x}Ba_{x}CuO_{4}, with $0.05 \leq? x \leq? 0.095. We construct a phase diagram based solely on magnetic order parameter measurements, which displays much of the complexity of standard high temperature superconductivity phase diagrams discussed in the literature. Analysis of high energy-resolution inelastic neutron scattering at moderately low temperatures shows a progressive depletion of the very low energy dynamic magnetic susceptibility as x increases from 0.0125 to 0.035. This low energy, dynamic susceptibility falls off? with increasing temperature on a scale much higher than the effective 2D IC TN appropriate to these materials. Appreciable dynamic 2D IC magnetic fluctuations inhabit much of the "pseudogap" regime of the phase diagram.

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@article{arxiv.1304.0362,
  title  = {Two Dimensional Incommensurate and Three Dimensional Commensurate Magnetic Order and Fluctuations in $La_{2-x}Ba_{x}CuO_{4}$},
  author = {J. J. Wagman and G. Van Gastel and K. A. Ross and Z. Yamani and Y. Zhao and Y. Qiu and J. R. D. Copley and A. B. Kallin and E. Mazurek and J. P. Carlo and H. A. Dabkowska and B. D. Gaulin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.0362},
  year   = {2016}
}

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12 pages, 10 figures