Singularities in the optical response of cuprates

Abstract

We argue that the detailed analysis of the optical response in cuprate superconductors allows one to verify the magnetic scenario of superconductivity in cuprates, as for strong coupling charge carriers to antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations, the second derivative of optical conductivity should contain detectable singularities at $2\Delta +{\Delta }_{\mathrm{spin}}$, $4\Delta$, and $2\Delta +2{\Delta }_{\mathrm{spin}}$, where $\Delta$ is the amplitude of the superconducting gap, and ${\Delta }_s$ is the resonance energy of spin fluctuations measured in neutron scattering. We argue that there is a good chance that these singularities have already been detected in the experiments on optimally doped $YBCO$.

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