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The role of antiferromagnetic spin correlations in high-temperature superconductors remains a matter of debate. We present inelastic neutron scattering evidence that gapless spin fluctuations coexist with superconductivity in…
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The spin susceptibility of strongly correlated Sr$_2$RuO$_4$ is known to display a rich structure in reciprocal space, with a prominent peak at ${\bf Q}_i$=$(0.3,0.3,0)$. It is still debated if the resulting incommensurate spin-density-wave…