Fermionic spinon theory of the hourglass spin excitation spectrum of the cuprates

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Autores principales: Nikolaenko, Alexander, Bonetti, Pietro M., Sachdev, Subir
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Publicado: 2025
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author Nikolaenko, Alexander
Bonetti, Pietro M.
Sachdev, Subir
author_facet Nikolaenko, Alexander
Bonetti, Pietro M.
Sachdev, Subir
contents We present a theory for the spin fluctuation spectrum of the hole-doped cuprates in a ground state with period 4 unidirectional charge density wave (`stripe') order. Motivated by recent experimental evidence for a fractionalized Fermi liquid (FL*) description of the intermediate temperature pseudogap metal, we employ a theory of fermionic spinons which are confined with the onset of stripe order at low temperatures. The theory produces the `hourglass' spectrum near stripe-ordering wavevector observed by neutron scattering. Additional scattering from spinon continua and bound states appears at higher energies and elsewhere in the Brillouin zone, and could be observed by neutron or X-ray scattering.
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spellingShingle Fermionic spinon theory of the hourglass spin excitation spectrum of the cuprates
Nikolaenko, Alexander
Bonetti, Pietro M.
Sachdev, Subir
Strongly Correlated Electrons
We present a theory for the spin fluctuation spectrum of the hole-doped cuprates in a ground state with period 4 unidirectional charge density wave (`stripe') order. Motivated by recent experimental evidence for a fractionalized Fermi liquid (FL*) description of the intermediate temperature pseudogap metal, we employ a theory of fermionic spinons which are confined with the onset of stripe order at low temperatures. The theory produces the `hourglass' spectrum near stripe-ordering wavevector observed by neutron scattering. Additional scattering from spinon continua and bound states appears at higher energies and elsewhere in the Brillouin zone, and could be observed by neutron or X-ray scattering.
title Fermionic spinon theory of the hourglass spin excitation spectrum of the cuprates
topic Strongly Correlated Electrons
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.03792