Evidence for two distinct energy scales in the Raman spectra of YBa2(Cu1-xNix)3O6.95

Y Gallais; A Sacuto; P Bourges; Y Sidis; A Forget; D Colson

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.177401

Evidence for two distinct energy scales in the Raman spectra of YBa2(Cu1-xNix)3O6.95

Phys Rev Lett. 2002 Apr 29;88(17):177401. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.177401. Epub 2002 Apr 9.

Authors

Y Gallais¹, A Sacuto, P Bourges, Y Sidis, A Forget, D Colson

Affiliation

¹ Laboratoire de Physique du Solide (UPR 5 CNRS) ESPCI, 10 rue Vauquelin, 75231 Paris, France.

PMID: 12005782
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.177401

Abstract

We report electronic Raman scattering from Ni-substituted YBa2Cu3O6.95 single crystals with T(c) ranging from 92.5 to 78 K. The fully symmetrical A(1g) channel and the B(1g) channel which is sensitive to the d(x(2)-y(2)) gap maximum have been explored. The energy of the B(1g) pair-breaking peak remains constant under Ni doping while the energy of the A(1g) peak scales with T(c) ( E(A(1g))/k(B)T(c) = 5). Our data show that the A(1g) peak tracks the magnetic resonance peak observed in inelastic neutron scattering yielding a key explanation to the long-standing problem of the origin of the A(1g) peak.