Magnetic neutron scattering in hole doped cuprate superconductors

TL;DR

This review summarizes neutron scattering studies of magnetic properties in hole-doped cuprate superconductors, highlighting how spin dynamics and magnetic order evolve with doping and their relation to superconductivity.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of experimental findings on magnetic properties across different doping levels in cuprates, emphasizing new insights from advanced neutron scattering techniques.

Findings

Spin dispersion changes from insulating to superconducting states.

Static magnetic properties are closely linked to superconductivity.

Magnetic and superconducting orders exhibit complex interactions.

Abstract

A review is presented of the static and dynamic magnetic properties of hole-doped cuprate superconductors measured with neutron scattering. A wide variety of experiments are described with emphasis on the monolayer La_{2-x}(Sr,Ba)_{x}CuO_{4} and bilayer YBa_{2}Cu_{3}O_{6+x} cuprates. At zero hole doping, both classes of materials are antiferromagnetic insulators with large superexchange constants of J > 100 meV. For increasing hole doping, the cuprates become superconducting at a critical hole concentration of x_{c}=0.055. The development of new instrumentation at neutron beam sources coupled with the improvement in materials has lead to a better understanding of these materials and the underlying spin dynamics over a broad range of hole dopings. We will describe how the spin dispersion changes across the insulating to superconducting boundary as well as the static magnetic properties which are directly coupled with the superconductivity. Experiments directly probing the competing magnetic and superconducting order parameters involving magnetic fields, impurity doping, and structural order will be examined. Correlations between superconductivity and magnetism will also be discussed.