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Recent inelastic neutron scattering measurements found that the spin susceptibility of detwinned and highly ordered ortho-II YBa_2Cu_3O_{6.5} exhibits, in both the normal and superconducting states, one-dimensional incommensurate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 E. Bascones , T. M. Rice

We present the results of neutron-scattering studies on various aspects of crystalline and magnetic structure in single crystals of La(1.6-x)Nd(0.4)Sr(x)CuO(4) with x=0.12 and 0.15. In particular, we have reexamined the degree of stripe…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 J. M. Tranquada , N. Ichikawa , S. Uchida

We report a neutron scattering study of the spin excitation spectrum in the superconducting state of slightly overdoped Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+d system (Tc=87 K). We focus on the dispersion of the resonance peak in the superconducting state that is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-12-02 B. Fauqué , Y. Sidis , L. Capogna , A. Ivanov , K. Hradil , C. Ulrich , A. I. Rykov , B. Keimer , P. Bourges

Time-of-flight inelastic neutron scattering measurements on Sr2IrO4 single crystals were performed to access the spin Hamiltonian in this canonical Jeff=1/2 spin-orbital Mott insulator. The momentum of magnetic scattering at all inelastic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-12 S. Calder , D. M. Pajerowski , M. B. Stone , A. F. May

We use polarized inelastic neutron scattering (INS) to study spin excitations of optimally hole-doped superconductor Ba$_{0.67}$K$_{0.33}$Fe$_2$As$_{2}$ ($T_c=38$ K). In the normal state, the imaginary part of the dynamic susceptibility,…

We use inelastic neutron scattering to probe magnetic excitations of an optimally electron-doped superconductor Nd$_{1.85}$Ce$_{0.15}$CuO$_{4-\delta}$ above and below its superconducting transition temperature $T_c=25$ K. In addition to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Jun Zhao , Pengcheng Dai , Shiliang Li , Paul G. Freeman , Y. Onose , Y. Tokura

We use inelastic neutron scattering with spin polarization analysis to study the magnetic excitations in the normal and superconducting states of YBa2Cu3O6.9. Polarization analysis allows us to determine the spin polarization of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-18 N. S. Headings , S. M. Hayden , J. Kulda , N. Hari Babu , D. A. Cardwell

We report measurements of the magnetic penetration depth in YBCO films at various oxygen concentrations. At optimal doping, critical fluctuation effects are absent, and the penetration depth from 4 K to 0.99 Tc is well described by d-wave,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-25 Brent R. Boyce , Kathleen M. Paget , Thomas R. Lemberger

In a recent inelastic neutron scattering experiment in the pseudogap state of the high temperature superconductor $\mathrm{YBa_{2}Cu_{3}O_{6.6}}$ an unusual `vertical' dispersion of the spin excitations with a large in-plane anisotropy was…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-20 Chen-Hsuan Hsu , Zhiqiang Wang , Sudip Chakravarty

By performing time-of-flight neutron scattering measurements on a large amount of single crystals of Sr$_2$RuO$_4$, we studied detailed structure of the imaginary part of the dynamic spin susceptibility over a wide range of phase space. In…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-28 K. Iida , M. Kofu , N. Katayama , J. Lee , R. Kajimoto , Y. Inamura , M. Nakamura , M. Arai , Y. Yoshida , M. Fujita , K. Yamada , S. -H. Lee

Neutron scattering from high-quality YBa2Cu3O6.33 (YBCO6.33) single crystals with a Tc of 8.4 K shows no evidence of a coexistence of superconductivity with long-range antiferromagnetic order at this very low, near-critical doping of…

Existing data on Cu-nuclear spin relaxation reveal two independent relaxation processes: the one that is temperature independent we link to incommensurate peaks seen by neutrons, while the ''universal'' temperature dependent contribution…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 L. P. Gor'kov , G. B. Teitel'baum

The magnetic spectrum at high-energies in heavily underdoped YBa$_{2}$Cu$_{3}$O$_{6.35}$ (T$_{c}$=18 K) has been determined throughout the Brillouin zone. At low-energy the scattering forms a cone of spin excitations emanating from the…

We use high-resolution inelastic neutron scattering to study the low-temperature magnetic excitations of electron-doped superconducting Pr$_{0.88}$LaCe$_{0.12}$CuO$_{4-\delta}$ ($T_c=21\pm 1$ K) over a wide energy range (4…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Stephen D. Wilson , Shiliang Li , H. Woo , Pengcheng Dai , H. A. Mook , C. D. Frost , Seiki Komiya , Yoichi Ando

We present two experiments that provide information on spin anisotropy and the magnetic structure of NaxCoO2. First, we report low-energy neutron inelastic scattering measurements of the zone-center magnetic excitations in the magnetically…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 L. M. Helme , A. T. Boothroyd , R. Coldea , D. Prabhakaran , A. Stunault , G. J. McIntyre , N. Kernavanois

The superconducting state of a two-dimensional d-p model is studied from the spin fluctuation point of view by using a strong coupling theory. The fluctuation exchange (FLEX) approximatoin is employed to calculate the spin fluctuations and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Tetsuya Takimoto , Toru Moriya

The wave-vector integrated dynamical spin susceptibility chi_{2D}(omega) of YBCO cuprates is considered. chi_{2D} is calculated in the superconducting state from a renormalized mean-field theory of the t-t'-J-model, based on the slave-boson…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Jan Brinckmann , Patrick A. Lee

The magnetic excitation spectrum of a YBa_2 Cu_3 O_7 crystal containing 0.5% of nonmagnetic (Zn) impurities has been determined by inelastic neutron scattering. Whereas in the pure system a sharp resonance peak at E ~ 40 meV is observed…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 H. F. Fong , P. Bourges , Y. Sidis , L. P. Regnault , J. Bossy , A. Ivanov , D. L. Milius , I. A. Aksay , B. Keimer

Polarized and unpolarized neutron scattering has been used to determine the effect of superconductivity on the magnetic excitation spectra of YBa_2 Cu_3 O_{6.5} (T_c = 52K) and YBa_2 Cu_3 O_{6.7} (T_c = 67K). Pronounced enhancements of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-28 H. F. Fong , B. Keimer , D. L. Milius , I. A. Aksay

In this letter we report results from inelastic neutron scattering experiments on powder samples of vanadyl pyrophosphate, (VO)2P2O7. We see evidence for three magnetic excitations, at 3.5 meV, 6.0 meV and 14 meV. The intensity of the 3.5…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 A. W. Garrett , S. E. Nagler , T. Barnes , B. C. Sales