Detailed study of the structure of the low-energy magnetic excitations in overdoped LaSrCuO

Ikeuchi, Kazuhiko*; Kikuchi, Tatsuya*  ; Nakajima, Kenji  ; Kajimoto, Ryoichi  ; Wakimoto, Shuichi  ; Fujita, Masaki*

To examine the detailed structure of low-energy magnetic excitations in a high-transition-temperature superconducting cuprate with heavily hole-doping, we performed inelastic neutron scattering experiments on LaSrCuO. We observed clear dispersion relations of the previously reported incommensurate (IC) magnetic correlations at = (0.5 , 0.5)/(0.5, 0.5 ). In addition, we show the emergence of continuum magnetic excitations with a ring shape centered at point in a constant energy spectrum at = 50 K. The radius of the ring ( = 0.109) is smaller than the incommensurability ( = 0.118). This suggests that the origin of the ring-like excitations is different from that of the IC magnetic correlations, and the low-energy magnetic excitations of the LaSrCuO system are inherently composed of these two kinds of excitations.