American Physical Society, Physical Review Letters, 1(99), 2007
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.99.017001
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We use inelastic neutron scattering to probe magnetic excitations of an optimally electron-doped superconductor Nd{sub 1.85}Ce{sub 0.15}CuO{sub 4-{delta}} above and below its superconducting transition temperature T{sub c}=25 K. In addition to gradually opening a spin pseudogap at the antiferromagnetic ordering wave vector Q=(1/2,1/2,0), the effect of superconductivity is to form a resonance centered also at Q=(1/2,1/2,0) but at energies above the spin pseudogap. The intensity of the resonance develops like a superconducting order parameter, similar to those for hole-doped superconductors and electron-doped Pr{sub 0.88}LaCe{sub 0.12}CuO{sub 4}. The resonance is therefore a general phenomenon of cuprate superconductors, and must be fundamental to the mechanism of high-T{sub c} superconductivity.