M. Rubhausen et al., RAMAN-SCATTERING OF MAGNETIC EXCITATIONS IN Y1-XPRXBA2CU3-YALYO7-DELTA SINGLE-CRYSTALS, Journal of low temperature physics, 105(3-4), 1996, pp. 761-766
Magnetic excitations and their role for the superconductivity in cupra
te superconductors have been widely discussed in the literature. Here,
we present a study of Y1-xPrxBa2Cu3-yAlyO7-delta single crystals usin
g Raman spectroscopy in an energy range of 50 - 10000 cm(-1) Raman shi
ft. The high energy range is dominated by a two-magnon scattering proc
ess at 3J, where J is the superexchange energy. In the Pr-123 single c
rystal, we find J = 720 cm(-1), a damping of the one-magnon states Gam
ma = 200 cm(-1), and a resonance energy of 2.79 eV for the two-magnon
excitation. The two-magnon peak shows a continuous increase of the one
-magnon damping with decreasing x and a nearly constant J across the p
hase transition to the superconductor. Especially, we find a weak two-
magnon peak for a superconductor with a T-c = 86 K.