Resonant Spin Excitation in the High Temperature Superconductor Ba0.6K0.4Fe2As2
A. D. Christianson, E. A. Goremychkin, R. Osborn, S. Rosenkranz, M. D. Lumsden, C. D. Malliakas, l. S. Todorov, H. Claus, D. Y. Chung, M. G. Kanatzidis, R. I. Bewley, T. Guidi
The recent observations of superconductivity at temperatures up to 55K in compounds containing layers of iron arsenide have revealed a new class of high temperature superconductors that show striking similarities to the more familiar cuprates. In both series of compounds, the onset of superconductivity is associated with the suppression of magnetic order by doping holes and/or electrons into the band leading to theories in which magnetic fluctuations are either responsible for or strongly coupled to the superconducting order parameter. In the cuprates, theories of magnetic pairing have been invoked to explain the observation of a resonant magnetic excitation that scales in energy with the superconducting energy gap and is suppressed above the superconducting transition temperature, Tc. Such resonant excitations have been shown by inelastic neutron scattering to be a universal feature of the cuprate superconductors, and have even been observed in heavy fermion superconductors with much lower transition temperatures. In this paper, we show neutron scattering evidence of a resonant excitation in Ba0.6K0.4Fe2As2, which is a superconductor below 38K, at the momentum transfer associated with magnetic order in the undoped compound, BaFe2As2, and at an energy transfer that is consistent with scaling in other strongly correlated electron superconductors. As in the cuprates, the peak disappears at Tc providing the first experimental confirmation of a strong coupling of the magnetic fluctuation spectrum to the superconducting order parameter in the new iron arsenide superconductors.
High Tc superconductors show a rich variety of phases associated with their charge degrees of freedom. Valence charges can give rise to charge ordering or acoustic plasmons in these layered cuprate superconductors. While charge ordering has been observed for both hole- and electron-doped cuprates, acoustic plasmons have only been found in electron-doped materials. Here, we use resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) to observe the presence of acoustic plasmons in two families of hole-doped cuprate superconductors [La2-xSrxCuO4 (LSCO) and Bi2Sr1.6La0.4CuO6+d (Bi2201)], crucially completing t…
Magnetic Resonant Mode in the Single-Layer High Temperature Superconductor Tl$_2$Ba$_2$Cu$_{6+δ}$
通过中子散射观察到的一种不寻常的自旋激发模式激发了对氧化铜高温超导体中带电准粒子和集体自旋激发之间相互作用的大量理论研究。到目前为止，该模式仅在具有由氧化铜双层组成的晶体结构的材料中观察到，并且在单层化合物La $_{2-x}$ Sr $_{x}$ CuO $_{4+δ}$中明显不存在。中子散射数据表明，该模式存在于T1 $_2$ Ba $_2$ Cu $_{6+δ}$中，$_c$ $\sim$为90 K的单层化合物，从而表明它是氧化铜超导体的一般特征，与层序列无关。这限制了共振模起源的理论模型及其在高温超导机制中的作用。
The recent development of x-ray scattering techniques revealed the charge-excitation spectrum in high-$T_c$ cuprate superconductors. While the presence of a dispersive signal in the high-energy charge-excitation spectrum is well accepted in the electron-doped cuprates, its interpretation and universality are controversial. Since charge fluctuations are observed ubiquitously in cuprate superconductors, the understanding of its origin is a pivotal issue. Here, we employ the layered $t$-$J$ model with the long-range Coulomb interaction and show that an acoustic-like plasmon mode with a gap at in-…
Collective nature of spin excitations in superconducting cuprates probed by resonant inelastic x-ray scattering
利用共振非弹性X射线散射（RIXS）技术，研究了高温超导体YBa_2Cu_3 O_（6 +x）在宽掺杂范围（0.1 < x < 1）内的色散自旋激发。当入射光子能量从共振条件失谐时，仔细监测激发分布，发现自旋激发能对所有x都与失谐无关。这些发现表明，掺杂铜氧化物中自旋翻转RIXS分布的最大部分来自磁集体模式，而不是最近理论上提出的非相干粒子-空穴激发[Benjamin等人，Phys. Rev. Lett. 112，247002（2014）]。在铜酸盐的电子系统的理论描述的影响进行了讨论。
Recently resonant inelastic x-ray scattering experiments reported fine details of the charge excitations around the in-plane momentum ${\bf q}_{\parallel}=(0,0)$ for various doping rates in electron-doped cuprates ${\rm La_{2-x}Ce_xCuO_4}$. We find that those new experimental data are well captured by acoustic-like plasmon excitations in a microscopic study of the layered $t$-$J$ model with the long-range Coulomb interaction. The acoustic-like plasmon is not a usual plasmon typical to the two-dimensional system, but has a small gap proportional to the interlayer hopping $t_z$.
We study theoretically spin excitations in the newly discovered nickelate superconductors based on a single-band model and the random phase approximation. The spin excitations are found to be incommensurate in a low energy region. A spin resonance phenomena is revealed as the excitation energy increases. The maximum intensity may be at the incommensurate momentum or the commensurate momentum, depending on the out-of-plane momentum. The spin excitations become incommensurate again at higher energies. The similarities and differences of the spin excitations between nickelate and cuprate supercon…
We report polarized neutron scattering measurements of the low energy spin fluctuations of the iron-selenide superconductor Li$_{0.8}$Fe$_{0.2}$ODFeSe below and above its superconducting transition temperature $T_c=41$ K. Our experiments confirmed that the resonance mode near 21 meV is magnetic. Moreover, the spin excitations are essentially isotropic in spin space at 5$\leq E\leq$ 29 meV in the superconducting and normal states. Our results suggest that the resonance mode in iron-based superconductors becomes isotropic when the influence of spin-orbit coupling and magnetic/nematic order is mi…
Evidence of incoherent carriers associated with resonant impurity levels and their influence on superconductivity in the anomalous superconductor Pb$_{1-x}$Tl$_x$Te
我们提出了一个相结合的实验和理论研究的费米表面的异常超导体Pb $_{1-x}$ Tl $_x$ Te作为铊浓度的函数的演化，绘制磁输运测量（Shubnikov de Haas振荡和霍尔系数），角度分辨光电子能谱（ARPES），和密度泛函理论（DFT）的电子结构的计算相结合。我们的结果表明，对于Tl浓度超过一个临界值的费米能量符合共振杂质态的Pb $_{1-x}$ Tl $_x$ Te，我们排除了存在一个额外的价带最大的费米能量。通过与非超导Pb $_{1-x}$ Na $_x$ Te的比较，我们认为这些状态在费米能级的存在提供了配对相互作用，从而也提供了这种材料的高温超导性。
