Commensurate spin dynamics in the superconducting state of an electron-doped cuprate superconductor

Details Commensurate spin dynamics in the superconducting state of an electron-doped cuprate superconductor Commensurate spin dynamics in the superconducting state of an electron-doped cuprate superconductor

2002-10-24

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0210536v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

RevTeX 4, 5 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.137004

We report neutron scattering studies on single crystals of the electron-doped (n-type) superconducting cuprate Nd2-xCexCuO4 (x=0.15) with Tc = 18 K and 25 K. Unlike the hole-doped (p-type) superconducting cuprates where incommensurate magnetic fluctuations commonly exist, the n-type cuprate shows commensurate magnetic fluctuations at the tetragonal (1/2 1/2 0) reciprocal points both in the superconducting and in the normal state. A spin gap opens up when the n-type cuprate becomes superconducting, as in the optimally doped p-type La2-xSrxCuO4. The gap energy, however, increases gradually up to about 4 meV as T decreases from Tc to 2 K, which contrasts with the spin pseudogap behavior with a T-independent gap energy in the superconducting state of p-type cuprates.

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