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Neutron-Scattering Evidence for a Periodically Modulated Superconducting Phase in the Underdoped Cuprate La1.905Ba0.095CuO4

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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 113, Issue 17, Pages -

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AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.177002

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  1. Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES), Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-AC02- 98CH10886]
  2. National Science Foundation [DMR-0944772]
  3. Scientific User Facilities Division, BES, U.S. DOE

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The role of antiferromagnetic spin correlations in high-temperature superconductors remains a matter of debate. We present inelastic neutron-scattering evidence that gapless spin fluctuations coexist with superconductivity in La1.905Ba0.095CuO4. Furthermore, we observe that both the low-energy magnetic spectral weight and the spin incommensurability are enhanced with the onset of superconducting correlations. We propose that the coexistence occurs through intertwining of spatial modulations of the pair wave function and the antiferromagnetic correlations. This proposal is also directly relevant to sufficiently underdoped La2-xSrxCuO4 and YBa2Cu3O6+x.

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