Commensurate antiferromagnetic excitations as a signature of the pseudogap in the tetragonal high-Tc cuprate HgBa2CuO4+δ

Chan, M. K.; Dorow, C. J.; Mangin-Thro, L.; Tang, Y.; Ge, Y.; Veit, M. J.; Yu, G.; Zhao, X.; Christianson, A. D.; Park, J. T.; Sidis, Y.; Steffens, P.; Abernathy, D. L.; Bourges, P.; Greven, M.

doi:10.1038/ncomms10819

Commensurate antiferromagnetic excitations as a signature of the pseudogap in the tetragonal high-T_c cuprate HgBa₂CuO_4+δ

Journal Article · Thu Mar 03 23:00:00 EST 2016 · Nature Communications

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10819· OSTI ID:1259490

Chan, M. K. ^[1]; Dorow, C. J. ^[2]; Mangin-Thro, L. ^[3]; Tang, Y. ^[2]; Ge, Y. ^[2]; Veit, M. J. ^[2]; Yu, G. ^[2]; Zhao, X. ^[4]; Christianson, A. D. ^[5]; Park, J. T. ^[6]; Sidis, Y. ^[3]; Steffens, P. ^[7]; Abernathy, D. L. ^[5]; ^[3]; Greven, M. ^[2]

Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States); Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States)
CEA-CNRS, Gif sur Yvette (France)
Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States); Jilin Univ., Changchun (China)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Neutron source Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II), Garching (Germany)
Inst. Laue-Langevin (ILL), Grenoble (France)

We report that antiferromagnetic correlations have been argued to be the cause of the d-wave superconductivity and the pseudogap phenomena exhibited by the cuprates. Although the antiferromagnetic response in the pseudogap state has been reported for a number of compounds, there exists no information for structurally simple HgBa₂CuO_4+δ. We report neutron-scattering results for HgBa₂CuO_4+δ (superconducting transition temperature T_c≈71 K, pseudogap temperature T*≈305 K) that demonstrate the absence of the two most prominent features of the magnetic excitation spectrum of the cuprates: the X-shaped ‘hourglass’ response and the resonance mode in the superconducting state. Instead, the response is Y-shaped, gapped and significantly enhanced below T*, and hence a prominent signature of the pseudogap state.

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Research Organization:: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0006858; FG02-08ER46544

OSTI ID:: 1259490

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1287028

Journal Information:: Nature Communications, Journal Name: Nature Communications Vol. 7; ISSN 2041-1723

Publisher:: Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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