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Dispersion of Magnetic Excitations in Superconducting Optimally Doped YBa2Cu3O6.95

D. Reznik, P. Bourges, L. Pintschovius, Y. Endoh, Y. Sidis, T. Matsui, S. Tajima

cond-mat.str-elarXiv:cond-mat/0307591

Abstract

Detailed neutron scattering measurements of YBa2Cu3O6.95 found that the resonance peak and incommensurate magnetic scattering induced by superconductivity represent the same physical phenomenon: two dispersive branches that converge near 41 meV and the in-plane wave-vector qaf=(pi/a, pi/a) to form the resonance peak. One branch has a circular symmetry around qaf and quadratic downward dispersion from ~41 meV to the spin gap of 33+-1meV. The other, of lower intensity, disperses from ~41 meV to at least 55 meV. Our results exclude a quartet of vertical incommensurate rods in q-w space expected from spin waves produced by dynamical charge stripes as an origin of the observed incommensurate scattering in optimally-doped YBCO.

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