Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2008-07-08
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
16 pages, 3 figures embedded
Scientific paper
In the early days of high temperature superconductivity it was already recognized that magnetic properties of these materials are intimately related to the superconducting ones . When doped, the long-range ordered antiferromagnetic background of pristine copper-oxide insulators melts away and makes room for a spin liquid and superconductivity. By resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) in the soft regime we probe the hitherto inaccessible dynamical multiple-spin correlations of the magnetic background in a series of parent compounds and in high Tc materials [NCCO (Nd2-xCexCuO4) and LSCO (La2-xSrxCuO4)]. High resolution measurements allows the clear observation of dispersing bimagnon excitations. In the undoped compounds the theory, fits the data on these coherent spin excitations without free parameters. In nearly optimally doped LSCO we observe the appearance of a new collective excitation at an energy of 250 +/- 60 meV having the signature of a coupled bimagnon-charge mode. It has a strongly reduced dispersion and lies in a so far unexplored region of momentum and energy space in the mid-infrared.
Ament Luuk J. P.
Aruta Carmela
Balestrino G.
Bisogni V.
Braicovich L.
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