Neutron Scattering Studies of Spin-Phonon Hybridization and Superconducting Spin-Gaps in High Temperature Superconductor $L{a}_{2-x}(Sr,Ba{)}_{x}Cu{O}_4$

Abstract

We present time-of-fight neutron-scattering measurements on single crystals of $L{a}_{2-x}B{a}_{x}Cu{O}_4$ (LBCO) with 0 $\le$ x $\le$ 0.095 and $L{a}_{2-x}S{r}_{x}Cu{O}_4$ (LSCO) with x = 0.08 and 0.11. This range of dopings spans much of the phase diagram relevant to high temperature cuprate superconductivity, ranging from insulating, three dimensional (3D) commensurate long range antiferromagnetic order, for x $\le$ 0.02, to two dimensional (2D) incommensurate antiferromagnetism co-existing with superconductivity for x $\ge$ 0.05. Previous work on lightly doped LBCO with x = 0.035 showed a clear resonant enhancement of the inelastic scattering coincident with the low energy crossings of the highly dispersive spin excitations and quasi-2D optic phonons. The present work extends these measurements across the phase diagram and shows this enhancement to be a common feature to this family of layered quantum magnets. Furthermore we show that the low temperature, low energy magnetic spectral weight is substantially larger for samples with non-superconducting ground states relative to any of the samples with superconducting ground states. Spin gaps, suppression of low energy magnetic spectral weight as a function of decreasing temperature, are observed in both superconducting LBCO and LSCO samples, consistent with previous observations for superconducting LSCO.

arXiv comment9 pages, 7 figures

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