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    Uniform Mixing of High-Tc Superconductivity and Antiferromagnetism on a Single CuO2 Plane in Hg-based Five-layered Cuprate

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    We report a site selective Cu-NMR study on under-doped Hg-based five-layered high-TcT_{\rm c} cuprate HgBa2Ca4Cu5Oy with a Tc=72 K. Antiferromagnetism (AF) has been found to take place at TN=290 K, exhibiting a large antiferromagnetic moment of 0.67-0.69uB at three inner planes (IP's). This value is comparable to the values reported for non-doped cuprates, suggesting that the IP may be in a nearly non-doped regime. Most surprisingly, the AF order is also detected with M(OP)=0.1uB even at two outer planes (OP's) that are responsible for the onset of superconductivity (SC). The high-Tc SC at Tc = 72 K can uniformly coexist on a microscopic level with the AF at OP's. This is the first microscopic evidence for the uniform mixed phase of AF and SC on a single CuO2 plane in a simple environment without any vortex lattice and/or stripe order.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures. To be published in Phys.Rev.Let

    Unique phase diagram with narrow superconducting dome in EuFe2_2(As1−x_{1-x}Px_x)2_2 due to Eu2+^{2+} local magnetic moments

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    The interplay between superconductivity and Eu2+ ^{2+} magnetic moments in EuFe2_2(As1−x_{1-x}Px_x)2_2 is studied by electrical resistivity measurements under hydrostatic pressure on x=0.13x=0.13 and x=0.18x=0.18 single crystals. We can map hydrostatic pressure to chemical pressure xx and show, that superconductivity is confined to a very narrow range 0.18≤x≤0.230.18\leq x \leq 0.23 in the phase diagram, beyond which ferromagnetic (FM) Eu ordering suppresses superconductivity. The change from antiferro- to FM Eu ordering at the latter concentration coincides with a Lifshitz transition and the complete depression of iron magnetic order.Comment: 4 page

    Experimental Quantification of Entanglement Through Heat Capacity

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    A new experimental realization of heat capacity as an entanglement witness (EW) is reported. Entanglement properties of a low dimensional quantum spin system are investigated by heat capacity measurements performed down to very low temperatures (400mK), for various applied magnetic field values. The experimentally extracted results for the value of heat capacity at zero field matches perfectly with the theoretical estimates of entanglement from model Hamiltonians. The studied sample is a spin 12\frac{1}{2} antiferromagnetic system which shows clear signature of quantum phase transition (QPT) at very low temperatures when the heat capacity is varied as a function of fields at a fixed temperature. The variation of entanglement as a function of field is then explored in the vicinity of the quantum phase transition to capture the sudden loss of entanglement.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures, To be published in NJ

    Magnetic phase transitions in the two-dimensional frustrated quantum antiferromagnet Cs2CuCl4

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    We report magnetization and specific heat measurements in the 2D frustrated spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet Cs2CuCl4 at temperatures down to 0.05 K and high magnetic fields up to 11.5 T applied along a, b and c-axes. The low-field susceptibility chi (T) M/B shows a broad maximum around 2.8 K characteristic of short-range antiferromagnetic correlations and the overall temperature dependence is well described by high temperature series expansion calculations for the partially frustrated triangular lattice with J=4.46 K and J'/J=1/3. At much lower temperatures (< 0.4 K) and in in-plane field (along b and c-axes) several new intermediate-field ordered phases are observed in-between the low-field incommensurate spiral and the high-field saturated ferromagnetic state. The ground state energy extracted from the magnetization curve shows strong zero-point quantum fluctuations in the ground state at low and intermediate fields

    Coexistence of Superconductivity and Antiferromagnetism in Multilayered High-TcT_c Superconductor HgBa2_2Ca4_4Cu5_5Oy_y: A Cu-NMR Study

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    We report a coexistence of superconductivity and antiferromagnetism in five-layered compound HgBa2_2Ca4_4Cu5_5Oy_y (Hg-1245) with Tc=108T_c=108 K, which is composed of two types of CuO2_2 planes in a unit cell; three inner planes (IP's) and two outer planes (OP's). The Cu-NMR study has revealed that the optimallydoped OP undergoes a superconducting (SC) transition at Tc=108T_c=108 K, whereas the three underdoped IP's do an antiferromagnetic (AF) transition below TN∼T_N\sim 60 K with the Cu moments of ∼(0.3−0.4)μB\sim (0.3-0.4)\mu_B. Thus bulk superconductivity with a high value of Tc=108T_c=108 K and a static AF ordering at TN=60T_N=60 K are realized in the alternating AF and SC layers. The AF-spin polarization at the IP is found to induce the Cu moments of ∼0.02μB\sim0.02\mu_B at the SC OP, which is the AF proximity effect into the SC OP.Comment: 6 pages, 8 figure

    Tuning of magnetic quantum criticality in artificial Kondo superlattice CeRhIn5/YbRhIn5

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    The effects of reduced dimensions and the interfaces on antiferromagnetic quantum criticality are studied in epitaxial Kondo superlattices, with alternating nn layers of heavy-fermion antiferromagnet CeRhIn5_5 and 7 layers of normal metal YbRhIn5_5. As nn is reduced, the Kondo coherence temperature is suppressed due to the reduction of effective Kondo screening. The N\'{e}el temperature is gradually suppressed as nn decreases and the quasiparticle mass is strongly enhanced, implying dimensional control toward quantum criticality. Magnetotransport measurements reveal that a quantum critical point is reached for n=3n=3 superlattice by applying small magnetic fields. Remarkably, the anisotropy of the quantum critical field is opposite to the expectations from the magnetic susceptibility in bulk CeRhIn5_5, suggesting that the Rashba spin-orbit interaction arising from the inversion symmetry breaking at the interface plays a key role for tuning the quantum criticality in the two-dimensional Kondo lattice.Comment: Main text: 5 pages, 4 figures; Supplemental material:6 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in Physical Review Letter
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