Coupled electronic and magnetic excitations in the cuprates and their role in the superconducting transition

Restrepo, Francisco; Chatterjee, Utpal; Gu, Genda; Xu, Hao; Morr, Dirk K.; Campuzano, Juan Carlos

doi:10.1038/s42005-022-00821-6

Title: Coupled electronic and magnetic excitations in the cuprates and their role in the superconducting transition

Journal Article · 28 February 2022 · Communications Physics

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-022-00821-6 · OSTI ID:1867820

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Univ. of Illinois, Chicago, IL (United States); University of Illinois at Chicago
Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (United States)
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Univ. of Illinois, Chicago, IL (United States)

The formation of Cooper pairs, a bound state of two electrons of opposite spin and momenta by exchange of a phonon, is a defining feature of conventional superconductivity. In the cuprate high temperature superconductors, even though the superconducting state also consists of Cooper pairs, the pairing mechanism remains intensely debated. Here, we investigate superconducting pairing in the Bi₂Sr₂CaCu₂O_8+δ (Bi2212) cuprate by employing spectral functions obtained from angle-resolved photoemission as input to the Bethe-Salpeter equation. Assuming Cooper pairing is driven by spin fluctuations, we construct the spin-fluctuation-mediated pairing interaction and use it to compute the eigenfunctions and eigenvalues of the Bethe-Salpeter equation for multiple Bi2212 samples. The leading d-wave eigenvalue increases as the temperature is decreased toward $$T_c$$, reaching a value of approximately 1 at the $$T_c$$ corresponding to each doping value. This suggests that spin fluctuations can approximately account for $$T_c$$ and mediate pairing in the cuprate superconductors.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Illinois, Chicago, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: FG02-05ER46225

OSTI ID:: 1867820

Journal Information:: Communications Physics, Journal Name: Communications Physics Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 5; ISSN 2399-3650

Publisher:: Springer NatureCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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