Persistence of magnetic excitations in La2-xSr xCuO4 from the undoped insulator to the heavily overdoped non-superconducting metal

Nature Materials

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1019-1023

  Dean, M P M ^a   Dellea, G ^b   Springell, R S ^c   Yakhou Harris, F ^d   Kummer, K ^d   Brookes, N B ^d   Liu, X ^a,e   Sun, Y J ^a,b   Strle, J ^a,f   Schmitt, T ^g   Braicovich, L ^b,h   Ghiringhelli, G ^b,h   Bozovic I ^a   Hill, J P ^a  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^d EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

^e INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^f JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^g PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^h CNR SPIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

HIGH-TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; MAGNETIC EXCITATIONS; MAGNON EXCITATIONS; NEUTRON SCATTERING MEASUREMENTS; OVERDOPED REGIME; RECIPROCAL SPACE; RESONANT INELASTIC X-RAY SCATTERING; SPECTRAL WEIGHT;

MAGNETISM;

EID: 84886284790     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3723     Document Type: Article

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