Superconductivity and magnetic fluctuations in electron-doped cobaltate superconductors

TL;DR

This paper investigates the relationship between superconductivity and magnetic fluctuations in electron-doped cobaltates, revealing a dome-shaped phase diagram and a characteristic magnetic resonance pattern that can be tested experimentally.

Contribution

It introduces a kinetic energy driven mechanism to explain superconductivity and predicts specific magnetic excitation features in doped Mott insulators.

Findings

Superconducting state governed by charge pairing and quasiparticle coherence.

Dome-shaped phase diagram consistent with experiments.

Magnetic excitation shows a commensurate resonance peak evolving into incommensurate peaks.

Abstract

We study the interplay between superconductivity and antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations in electron-doped cobaltate Na$_{x}$CoO$_{2}\cdot y$H$_{2}$O based on the kinetic energy driven superconductivity mechanism. We show that the superconducting state is governed by both charge carrier pairing and quasiparticle coherent, and displays a common dome-shaped phase diagram in agreement with experimental results. By calculating the dynamical spin structure factor, we theoretically find that the magnetic excitation shows a commensurate resonance peak, which locates at antiferromagnetic wave vector $Q (\frac{2\pi}{3},\frac{2\pi}{\sqrt{3}})$ for a broad range of low energies, then evolves outward into six incommensurate magnetic scattering peaks with increasing energy. Such commensurate-incommensurate spin resonance excitation should be measured by the inelastic neutron scattering technique (INS). Our present results strongly suggest that magnetic resonance can indeed be one of the fundamental features in doped Mott insulators.