A unified theory of spin and charge excitations in high-$T_c$ cuprates: Quantitative comparison with experiment and interpretation

Abstract

We provide a unified interpretation of both paramagnon and plasmon modes in high-$T_c$ copper-oxides, and verify it quantitatively against available resonant inelastic $x$-ray scattering (RIXS) data across the hole-doped phase diagram. Three-dimensional extended Hubbard model, with included long-range Coulomb interactions and doping-independent microscopic parameters for both classes of quantum fluctuations, is used. Collective modes are studied using VWF+$1/{\mathcal{N}}_f$ approach which extends variational wave function (VWF) scheme by means of an expansion in inverse number of fermionic flavors ($1/{\mathcal{N}}_f$). We show that intense paramagnons persist along the anti-nodal line from the underdoped to overdoped regime and undergo rapid overdamping in the nodal direction. Plasmons exhibit a three-dimensional character, with minimal energy corresponding to anti-phase oscillations on neighboring $\mathrm{Cu}{\mathrm{O}}_2$ planes. The theoretical spin- and charge excitation energies reproduce semi-quantitatively RIXS data for $(\mathrm{Bi},\mathrm{Pb}{)}_2(\mathrm{Sr},\mathrm{La}{)}_2\mathrm{Cu}{\mathrm{O}}_{6+\delta }$. The present VWF+$1/{\mathcal{N}}_f$ analysis of dynamics and former VWF results for static quantities combine into a consistent description of the principal properties of hole-doped high-$T_c$ cuprates as strongly correlated systems.

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