Critical spin fluctuations across the superconducting dome in La$_{2-x}$Sr$_{x}$CuO$_4$

Jacopo Radaelli; Oliver J. Lipscombe; Mengze Zhu; J. Ross Stewart; Aavishkar A. Patel; Subir Sachdev; Stephen M. Hayden

doi:10.1038/s41467-026-71319-w

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Critical spin fluctuations across the superconducting dome in La $_{2 - x}$ Sr $_{x}$ CuO $_{4}$

arXiv:2503.13600 · doi:10.1038/s41467-026-71319-w

Abstract

Overdoped cuprate superconductors are strange metals above their superconducting transition temperature. In such materials, the electrical resistivity has a strong linear dependence on temperature ( $T$ ) and electrical current is not carried by electron quasiparticles as in conventional metals. Here we demonstrate that the strange metal behaviour co-exists with strongly temperature-dependent critical spin fluctuations showing dynamical scaling across the cuprate phase diagram. Our neutron scattering observations and the strange metal behaviour are consistent with a spin density wave quantum phase transition in a metal with spatial disorder in the tuning parameter. Numerical computations using a theory of spin density waves in a disordered metal yield an extended `Griffiths phase' with scaling properties in agreement with experimental observations. Thus we establish that low-energy spin excitations and spatial disorder are central to the strange metal behaviour.

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