2008/12/14 by Zhihao Hao, Andrey V. Chubukov, Hao, Zhihao +1
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el) #cond-mat.str-el
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0812.2697
5 pp, 5 figures, submitted to PRB
arxiv created 2008/12/14 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
We re-analyzed the issue whether the resonance peak observed in neutron scattering experiments on the cuprates is an exciton, a π-resonance, or a magnetic plasmon. We considered a toy model with on-cite Hubbard U and nearest-neighbor interactions in both charge and spin channels. We found that the resonance is predominantly an exciton, even if magnetic interaction is absent and d-wave pairing originates from attractive density-density interaction. Our results indicate that one cannot distinguish between spin and charge-mediated pairing interactions by just looking at the resonance peak in the dynamic spin susceptibility.