464 research outputs found
The spin resonance and high frequency optical properties of the cuprates
We argue that recently observed superconductivity-induced blue shift of the
plasma frequency in is
related to the change in the integrated dynamical structure factor associated
with the development of the spin resonance below . We show that the
magnitude of is consistent with the small integrated
spectral weight of the resonance, and its temperature dependences closely
follow that of the spin resonance peak.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
Magnetic-Field-Induced 4f-Octupole in CeB6 Probed by Resonant X-ray Diffraction
CeB6, a typical Gamma_8-quartet system, exhibits a mysterious
antiferroquadrupolar ordered phase in magnetic fields, which is considered as
originating from the T_{xyz}-type magnetic octupole moment induced by the
field. By resonant x-ray diffraction in magnetic fields, we have verified that
the T_{xyz}-type octupole is indeed induced in the 4f-orbital of Ce with a
propagation vector (1/2, 1/2, 1/2), thereby supporting the theory. We observed
an asymmetric field dependence of the intensity for an electric quadrupole (E2)
resonance when the field was reversed, and extracted a field dependence of the
octupole by utilizing the interference with an electric dipole (E1) resonance.
The result is in good agreement with that of the NMR-line splitting, which
reflects the transferred hyperfine field at the Boron nucleus from the
anisotropic spin distribution of Ce with an O_{xy}-type quadrupole. The
field-reversal method used in the present study opens up the possibility of
being widely applied to other multipole ordering systems such as NpO2,
Ce_{x}La_{1-x}B_{6}, SmRu_{4}P_{12}, and so on.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, submitte
Double dispersion of the magnetic resonant mode in cuprates
The magnetic excitation spectra in the vicinity of the resonant peak, as
observed by inelastic neutron scattering in cuprates, are studied within the
memory-function approach. It is shown that at intermediate doping the
superconducting gap induces a double dispersion of the peak, with an anisotropy
rotated between the downward and upward branch. Similar behavior, but with a
spin-wave dispersion at higher energies, is obtained for the low-doping case
assuming a large pairing pseudogap.Comment: 4 LaTeX pages, 4 figure
Theory of magnetic excitations in iron-based layered superconductors
Based on the effective four-band model we analyze the spin response in the
normal and superconducting states of the Fe-pnictide superconductors. While the
normal state spin excitations are dominated by the continuum of the
interorbital antiferromagnetic fluctuations and the intraband spin density wave
fluctuations, the unconventional superconductivity yields different feedback.
The resonance peak in form of the well-defined spin exciton occurs {\it only}
for the interband scattering at the antiferromagnetic momentum
for the (extended s-wave) superconducting order parameter and it
disappears rapidly for . The resonance feature is
extremely weak for the -wave order parameter due to specific
Fermi surface topology of these compounds. The essential difference between
-wave and -wave symmetries for the magnetic excitations
can be used for experimental determination of the superconducting wave function
symmetry.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, published versio
Drude weight and total optical weight in a t-t'-J model
We study the Drude weight D and the total optical weight K for a t-t'-J model
on a square lattice that exhibits a metallic phase-modulated antiferromagnetic
ground state close to half-filling. Within a suitable 1/N expansion that
includes leading quantum-fluctuation effects, D and K are found to increase
linearly with small hole doping away from the Mott metal-insulator transition
point at half-filling. The slow zero-sound velocity near the latter transition
identifies with the velocity of the lower-energy branch of the twofold
excitation spectrum. At higher doping values, D and K eventually saturate and
then start to decrease. These features are in qualitative agreement with
optical conductivity measurements in doped antiferromagnets.Comment: 7 pages, REVTEX file (3 Postscript figures). To appear in J. Phys.:
Condens. Mattte
Spin-gap phase in nearly-half-filled one-dimensional conductors coupled with phonons
Asymptotic properties of nearly-half-filled one-dimensional conductors
coupled with phonons are studied through a renormalization group method. Due to
spin-charge coupling via electron-phonon interaction, the spin correlation
varies with filling as well as the charge correlation. Depending on the
relation between cut-off energy scales of the Umklapp process and of the
electron-phonon interaction, various phases appear. We found a metallic phase
with a spin gap and a dominant charge- density-wave correlation near half
filling between a gapless density-wave phase (like in the doped repulsive
Hubbard model) and a superconductor phase with a spin gap. The spin gap is
produced by phonon-assisted backward scatterings which are interfered with the
Umklapp process constructively or destructively depending on the character of
electron-phonon coupling.Comment: 14 pages, revtex, replaced 5 ps figures, published in PR
Strongly Correlated Cerium Systems: Non-Kondo Mechanism for Moment Collapse
We present an ab initio based method which gives clear insight into the
interplay between the hybridization, the coulomb exchange, and the
crystal-field interactions, as the degree of 4f localization is varied across a
series of strongly correlated cerium systems. The results for the ordered
magnetic moments, magnetic structure, and ordering temperatures are in
excellent agreement with experiment, including the occurence of a moment
collapse of non-Kondo origin. In contrast, standard ab initio density
functional calculations fail to predict, even qualitatively, the trend of the
unusual magentic properties.Comment: A shorter version of this has been submitted to PR
Spontaneous deformation of the Fermi surface due to strong correlation in the two-dimensional t-J model
Fermi surface of the two-dimensional t-J model is studied using the
variational Monte Carlo method. We study the Gutzwiller projected d-wave
superconducting state with an additional variational parameter t'_v
corresponding to the next-nearest neighbor hopping term. It is found that the
finite t'_v<0 gives the lowest variational energy in the wide range of
hole-doping rates. The obtained momentum distribution function shows that the
Fermi surface deforms spontaneously. It is also shown that the van Hove
singularity is always located very close to the Fermi energy. Using the
Gutzwiller approximation, we show that this spontaneous deformation is due to
the Gutzwiller projection operator or the strong correlation.Comment: 4 pages, 3 eps figures, revte
Novel in-gap spin state in Zn-doped La_1.85Sr_0.15CuO_4
Low-energy spin excitations of La1.85Sr0.15Cu1-yZnyO4 were studied by neutron
scattering. In y=0.004, the incommensurate magnetic peaks show a well defined
``spin gap'' below Tc. The magnetic signals at omega=3 meV decrease below Tc=27
K for y=0.008, also suggesting the gap opening. At lower temperatures, however,
the signal increases again, implying a novel in-gap spin state. In y=0.017, the
spin gap vanishes and elastic magnetic peaks appear. These results clarify that
doped Zn impurities induce the novel in-gap state, which becomes larger and
more static with increasing Zn.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Multipole decomposition of LDA+ energy and its application to actinides compounds
A general reformulation of the exchange energy of -shell is applied in
the analysis of the magnetic structure of various actinides compounds in the
framework of LDA+U method. The calculations are performed in an efficient
scheme with essentially only one free parameter, the screening length. The
results are analysed in terms of different polarisation channels, due to
different multipoles. Generally it is found that the spin-orbital polarisation
is dominating. This can be viewed as a strong enhancement of the spin-orbit
coupling in these systems. This leads to a drastic decrease in spin
polarisation, in accordance with experiments. The calculations are able to
correctly differentiate magnetic and non-magnetic Pu system. Finally, in all
magnetic systems a new multipolar order is observed, whose polarisation energy
is often larger in magnitude than that of spin polarisation.Comment: Fixed some references and picture
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