Spin excitations of ferronematic order in underdoped cuprate superconductors

  • High-temperature superconductors exhibit a characteristic hourglass-shaped spectrum of magnetic fluctuations which most likely contribute to the pairing glue in the cuprates. Recent neutron scattering experiments in strongly underdoped compounds have revealed a significant low energy anisotropy of these fluctuations which we explain by a model in which topological defects of the antiferromagnet clump to producing domain wall segments with ferronematic order. This state does not invoke global charge order but breaks C4 rotational and inversion symmetry. The incommensurability of the low doping charge-disordered state is in good agreement with experiment and interpolates smoothly with the incommensurability of the stripe phase at higher doping. Within linear spin-wave theory the dynamic structure factor is in very good agreement with inelastic neutron scattering data and can account for the observed energy dependent anisotropy.

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Author: Götz Seibold, Carlo Di Castro, Marco GrilliORCiD, José LorenzanaORCiD
URL:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4060504/
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/srep05319
ISSN:2045-2322
Title of the source (English):Scientific reports
Document Type:Scientific journal article peer-reviewed
Language:English
Year of publication:2014
Issue number:4
First Page:5319
Faculty/Chair:Fakultät 1 MINT - Mathematik, Informatik, Physik, Elektro- und Informationstechnik / FG Computational Physics
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