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Spin fluctuations in YBa2Cu3O6.6

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  • H. A. Mook

    (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

  • Pengcheng Dai

    (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

  • S. M. Hayden

    (H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol)

  • G. Aeppli

    (NEC Research Institute)

  • T. G. Perring

    (ISIS Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

  • F. Doğan

    (University of Washington)

Abstract

An important feature of the high-transition-temperature (high-Tc) copper oxide superconductors is the magnetism that results from the spins associated with the incomplete outer electronic shells (3d9) of the copper ions. Fluctuations of these spins give rise to magnetic excitations of the material, and might mediate the electron pairing that leads to superconductivity. If the mechanism for high-Tc superconductivity is the same for all copper oxide systems, their spin fluctuations should be universal. But so far, theopposite has seemed to be the case: neutron scattering data reveal clear differences between the spin fluctuations for two major classes of high-Tc materials, La2−xSrxCuO4 (1-3) and YBa2Cu3O7−x (4-6), whose respective building blocks are CuO2 layers and bilayers. Here we report two-dimensional neutron-scattering imaging of YBa2Cu3O6.6, which reveals that the low-frequency magnetic excitations are virtually identical to those of similarly doped La2−xSrxCuO4. Thus, the high-temperature (Tc ≲ 92 K) superconductivity of the former materials may be related to spatially coherent low-frequency spin excitations that were previously thought to be unique to the lower-Tc (

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  • H. A. Mook & Pengcheng Dai & S. M. Hayden & G. Aeppli & T. G. Perring & F. Doğan, 1998. "Spin fluctuations in YBa2Cu3O6.6," Nature, Nature, vol. 395(6702), pages 580-582, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:395:y:1998:i:6702:d:10.1038_26931
    DOI: 10.1038/26931
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