arXiv:2404.02219 · Physical review. B./Physical review. B
Spin and bond-charge excitation spectra in correlated electron systems near an antiferromagnetic phase
Muhammad Zafur, Hiroyuki Yamase
Abstract
Magnetic and bond-charge interactions can arise from the same microscopic interaction. Motivated by this observation, we compute magnetic and bond-charge excitation spectra on an equal footing by introducing a simple effective model on a square lattice, which describes antiferromagnetic and $d$-wave superconducting phases around half-filling on the electron-doped side. The magnetic excitation spectrum $\mathrm{Im}\ensuremath{\chi}(\mathbf{q},\ensuremath{\omega})$ has strong weight around $\mathbf{q}=(\ensuremath{\pi},\ensuremath{\pi})$ in low energy, and its intensity map exhibits a pencil-tip-like shape in $\mathbf{q}\text{\ensuremath{-}}\ensuremath{\omega}$ space. Around $\mathbf{q}=(0,0)$ magnetic excitations show a steep dispersion toward the $(\ensuremath{\pi},\ensuremath{\pi})$ and $(\ensuremath{\pi},0)$ directions, which is very similar to a spin-wave dispersion although the system is nonmagnetic. Bond-charge excitations are characterized by four different symmetries and studied for all possible couplings. Bond-charge fluctuations with three different symmetries have large spectral weight around $\mathbf{q}=(\ensuremath{\pi},\ensuremath{\pi})$ in a relatively low-energy region and extend widely more than the magnetic excitation spectrum. The $d$-wave symmetry of bond-charge excitations also has sizable spectral weight along the direction $(\ensuremath{\pi}/2,\ensuremath{\pi}/2)\text{\ensuremath{-}}(0,0)\text{\ensuremath{-}}(\ensuremath{\pi}/2,0)$ in a low-energy region and exhibits softening around $\mathbf{q}\ensuremath{\approx}(0.5\ensuremath{\pi},0)$, whereas no such softening is present in the other symmetries. These results capture the essential features observed in electron-doped cuprates and may motivate an experimental test of bond-charge excitations around $\mathbf{q}=(\ensuremath{\pi},\ensuremath{\pi})$ on top of the strong magnetic excitations there as well as additional softening in the $d$-wave channel in the $(\ensuremath{\pi},\ensuremath{\pi})\text{\ensuremath{-}}(\ensuremath{\pi}/2,\ensuremath{\pi}/2)$ region at low temperatures near the magnetic phase. We extend the present analysis to the hole-doped side and highlight a contrast to the electron-doped side, which includes incommensurate correlations, electronic nematic correlations, and spin and bond-charge resonance modes in the superconducting state.