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Effect of Superconductivity on the Incommensurate Magnetic Response of Cuprate Superconductors

Dirk K. Morr, David Pines

cond-mat.supr-conarXiv:cond-mat/9807214

Abstract

We explain the effects of superconductivity on the incommensurate magnetic response χ''(q,ω) observed in inelastic neutron scattering measurements on La2-xSrxCuO4. We show that a spin-fermion model correctly describes the frequency and momentum dependent changes of χ'' in the superconducting phase. We find these changes are generic features of an incommensurate spin structure and the d-wave symmetry of the superconducting gap and are thus expected for all cuprates with an incommensurate magnetic response. Our analysis of INS experiments in La2-xSrxCuO4 up to optimal doping suggests a Fermi surface which is closed around (π,π).

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