Resonance as a measure of pairing correlations in the high-Tc superconductor YBa2Cu3O6.6

Pengcheng Dai (), H. A. Mook, G. Aeppli, S. M. Hayden and F. Doğan
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Pengcheng Dai: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
H. A. Mook: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
G. Aeppli: NEC Research Institute
S. M. Hayden: H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol
F. Doğan: University of Washington

Nature, 2000, vol. 406, issue 6799, 965-968

Abstract: Abstract One of the most striking properties of the high-transition-temperature (high-Tc) superconductors is that they are all derived from insulating antiferromagnetic parent compounds. The intimate relationship between magnetism and superconductivity in these copper oxide materials has intrigued researchers from the outset1,2,3,4, because it does not exist in conventional superconductors. Evidence for this link comes from neutron-scattering experiments that show the unambiguous presence of short-range antiferromagnetic correlations (excitations) in the high-Tc superconductors. Even so, the role of such excitations in the pairing mechanism for superconductivity is still a subject of controversy5. For YBa2Cu3O6+x, where x controls the hole-doping level, the most prominent feature in the magnetic excitation spectrum is a sharp resonance (refs 6,7,8,9,10,11). Here we show that for underdoped YBa2Cu3O6.6, where x and Tc are below their optimal values, modest magnetic fields suppress the resonance significantly, much more so for fields approximately perpendicular to the CuO2 planes than for parallel fields. Our results indicate that the resonance measures pairing and phase coherence, suggesting that magnetism plays an important role in high-Tc superconductivity. The persistence of a field effect above Tc favours mechanisms in which the superconducting electron pairs are pre-formed in the normal state of underdoped copper oxide superconductors12,13,14, awaiting transition to the superconducting state.

Date: 2000
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