American Physical Society, Physical Review Letters, 17(110)
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.110.177002
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Inelastic neutron scattering measurements on Ba(Fe_{0.963}Ni_{0.037})_{2}As_{2} manifest a neutron spin resonance in the superconducting state with anisotropic dispersion within the Fe layer. Whereas the resonance is sharply peaked at the antiferromagnetic (AFM) wave vector Q_{AFM} along the orthorhombic a axis, the resonance disperses upwards away from Q_{AFM} along the b axis. In contrast to the downward dispersing resonance and hourglass shape of the spin excitations in superconducting cuprates, the resonance in electron-doped BaFe_{2}As_{2} compounds possesses a magnonlike upwards dispersion.