Laboratoire Léon Brillouin

UMR12 CEA-CNRS, Bât. 563 CEA Saclay

91191 Gif sur Yvette Cedex, France

+33-169085241 llb-sec@cea.fr

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Magnetic excitations in superconducting iron arsenides and cuprates: Analogies and differences
Vladimir HINKOV
MPI-FKF Stuttgart
Mardi 13/04/2010, 14:30
LLB - Bât 563 p15 (Grande Salle), CEA-Saclay

Starting with the pioneering work of Rossat-Mignod et al. in 1991, the thorough characterization of magnetic excitations in the high-Tc cuprates has contributed much to the understanding of superconductivity (SC) in these compounds.  The resonance peak, which was later discovered to form part of the so-called hour-glass dispersion, is also observed in heavy-fermion superconductors, and carries information about the SC order parameter: In cuprates, it is a signature of d-wave superconductivity. An exciting observation in the recently discovered iron-based superconductors is the presence of a resonance peak - in this family, it was shown that the resonance is compatible with a sign-reversed s-wave order parameter.

In my talk, I will first briefly outline the properties of the magnetic excitations in the antiferromagnetically ordered parent compounds of iron arsenides and cuprates. Then, I will discuss the salient features of the excitation spectrum in the superconducting cuprate YBa2Cu3O6+x, with particular emphasis on the resonance feature and its dispersion. Then I will concentrate on the spin excitations in superconducting BaFe2-x(Co,Ni)xAs2, present the properties of the resonance and argue that this system is more likely to be explained within the framework of conventional weak-coupling and not too-strongly-correlated approaches. Finally, I will compare the out-of-plane dispersion of the resonance in cuprates and iron arsenides and draw conclusions about the dimensionality of the physics in the two systems.

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