Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2007-09-26
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
4 pages latex file, 2 eps figs
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.77.134508
Inelastic neutron scattering data for YBaCuO as well as for LaSrCuO indicate incommensurate neutron scattering peaks with incommensuration $\delta(x)$ away from the $(\pi,\pi)$ point. $T_c(x)$ can be replotted as a linear function of the incommensuration for these materials. This linear relation implies that the constant that relates these two quantities, one being the incommensuration (momentum) and another being $T_c(x)$ (energy), has the dimension of velocity we denote $v^*$: $k_B T_c(x) = \hbar v^* \delta(x)$. We argue that this experimentally derived relation can be obtained in a simple model of Josephson coupled stripes. Within this framework we address the role of the $O^{16} \to O^{18}$ isotope effect on the $T_c(x)$. We assume that the incommensuration is set by the {\em doping} of the sample and is not sensitive to the oxygen isotope given the fixed doping. We find therefore that the only parameter that can change with O isotope substitution in the relation $T_c(x) \sim \delta(x)$ is the velocity $v^*$. We predict an oxygen isotope effect on $v^*$ and expect it to be $\simeq 5%$.
Balatsky Alexander V.
Lundow Per Hakan
Rosengren Anders
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