Spin structures and the nature of the pseudogap in cuprates

The spin and charge structures formed in a Hubbard model for a finite two-dimensional cluster have been studied in the mean field approximation. The self-consistent iterative procedure reduces an uncorrelated initial spin distribution into stable structures with characteristic spectral properties. It has been shown that the density of states of the system for any doping has a sharp minimum at the Fermi level, the pseudogap. This means that the pinning of the gap at the Fermi level is not an exclusive property of a superconducting state, but is also typical of a normal state of spin glasses.