Abstract

All of the copper oxide superconductors contain CuO2 layers which, when insulating, exhibit strong, two-dimensional (2D) antiferromagnetic correlations due to the unusually large superexchange interaction between nearest-neighbor Cu2+ atoms. Magnetic correlations survive, although with a reduced correlation length, even when the layers are doped with holes. A short review of neutron scattering studies of magnetic correlations and excitations in the layered cuprates is presented.

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