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Incommensurate magnetic ordering in Sr_2Ru_(1-x)Ti_xO_4

arXiv:cond-mat/0107579 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.197002

Abstract

In the spin excitation spectrum is dominated by incommensurate fluctuations at q=(0.3 0.3 q), which arise from Fermi-surface nesting. We show that upon Ti substitution, known to suppress superconductivity, a short range magnetic order develops with a propagation vector (0.307 0.307 1). This finding confirms that superconducting is extremely close to an incommensurate spin density wave instability. In addition, the ordered moment in \srton ~ points along the c-direction, which indicates that the incommensurate spin fluctuations exhibit the anisotropy required to explain a p-wave spin triplet pairing.

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