132 research outputs found
Understanding High Temperature Superconductors: Progress and Prospects
I review progress in measurements of the dynamic spin susceptibility in the
normal state which yield a new phase diagram and discuss microscopic
calculations which yield qualitative, and in many cases, quantitative agreement
with the measured changes in the quasiparticle, transport, magnetotransport,
and optical properties of the cuprate superconductors as one varies doping and
temperature provided one describes the systems as nearly anti-ferromagnetic
Fermi liquids in which the effective magnetic interaction between planar
quasiparticles mirrors the dynamic spin susceptibility measured in NMR and INS
experiments. Together with the demonstration that the NAFL pairing potential
leads inexorably to a d_x2-y2,pairing state, this work provides a "proof of
concept" for the NAFL description of high Tc materials. I review Eliashberg
calculations of the mean-field behavior found in overdoped systems and discuss
the extent to which the crossovers to pseudoscaling and pseudogap behavior
found in the effective magnetic interaction and quasiparticle behavior in the
optimally doped and underdoped systems may be derived microscopically. I
conclude with a tentative scenario for the dependence of Tc on doping level and
imperfections in different systems.Comment: 6 pages, 1 figure. To appear in a special issue of Physica C of the
M2S-HTSC-V Conference held Feb. 28-Mar. 4, 1997, in Beijing, Chin
A second phase transition and superconductivity in the beta-pyrochlore oxide KOs2O6
Another phase transition that is probably of first order is found in the
beta-pyrochlore oxide superconductor KOs2O6 with a superconducting transition
temperature Tc of 9.6 K. It takes place at Tp=7.5 K in the superconducting
state in a zero magnetic field. By applying magnetic fields of up to 140 kOe,
the Tc gradually decreased to 5.2 K, while Tp changed little, eventually
breaking through the Hc2 line at approximately 65 kOe in the H-T diagram. Both
the normal-state resistivity and Hc2 change slightly but significantly across
the second phase transition. It is suggested that the transition is associated
with the rattling of potassium ions located in an oversized cage of osmium and
oxide ions.Comment: 10 pages including 6 figures; to be published in the Proceedings of
HFM2006(J. Phys.: Condens. Matter
Charge order in the incommensurate compounds
The present paper studies, using ab-initio calculations, the influence of the
incommensurate structural modulations on the low energy physics of the
oxides. On-site, nearest-neighbor and
next-nearest-neighbor effective parameters were computed within a model
based on the copper magnetic orbitals. The structural modulations appear to be
the key degree of freedom, responsible for the low energy properties such as
the electron localization, the formation of dimers in the compound or the
anti-ferromagnetic order in the compound
A Possible Phase Transition in beta-pyrochlore Compounds
We investigate a lattice of interacting anharmonic oscillators by using a
mean field theory and exact diagonalization. We construct an effective
five-state hopping model with intersite repulsions as a model for
beta-pyrochlore AOs_2O_6(A=K, Rb or Cs). We obtain the first order phase
transition line from large to small oscillation amplitude phases as temperature
decreases. We also discuss the possibility of a phase with local electric
polarizations. Our theory can explain the origin of the mysterious first order
transition in KOs_2O_6.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, submitted to J. Phys. Soc. Jp
Localized versus itinerant magnetic moments in Na0.72CoO2
Based on experimental 59Co-NMR data in the temperature range between 0.1 and
300 K, we address the problem of the character of the Co 3d-electron based
magnetism in Na0.7CoO2. Temperature dependent 59Co-NMR spectra reveal different
Co environments below 300 K and their differentiation increases with decreasing
temperature. We show that the 23Na- and 59Co-NMR data may consistently be
interpreted by assuming that below room temperature the Co 3d-electrons are
itinerant. Their magnetic interaction appears to favor an antiferromagnetic
coupling, and we identify a substantial orbital contribution corb to the
d-electron susceptibility. At low temperatures corb seems to acquire some
temperature dependence, suggesting an increasing influence of spin-orbit
coupling. The temperature dependence of the spin-lattice relaxation rate
T1-1(T) confirms significant variations in the dynamics of this electronic
subsystem between 200 and 300K, as previously suggested. Below 200 K, Na0.7CoO2
may be viewed as a weak antiferromagnet with TN below 1 K but this scenario
still leaves a number of open questions.Comment: 8.7 pages, 6 Figures, submitted to Phys. Rev.
NMR study of the layered cobalt oxyphosphide Sr2Sc(Co1-xFex)PO3
We report the results of 31P-nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements on the layered cobalt oxyphosphide Sr2Sc(Co1−xFex)PO3 in order to investigate the magnetic properties at low temperatures from a microscopic view point. The 31P-Knight shifts measured at the resonance peak maximum of Sr2Sc(Co1−xFex)PO3 have positive values and are T-independent in an entire temperature range, and the absolute value decreases with increasing Fe content. Also, the nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate 1/T1 is almost proportional to the temperature at low temperatures. The magnitude of 1/T1T decreases with increasing the Fe content, which suggests the decrease of the density of states around the Fermi level
Chemical trends of superconducting properties in pyrochlore oxides
Chemical trends of fundamental superconducting parameters and normal-state
properties are described for a family of pyrochlore oxide superconductors.
Particularly, the change of Tc from 1.0 K for alpha-pyrochlore Cd2Re2O7 to 3.3
K (A = Cs), 6.3 K (Rb), and 9.6 K (K) for beta-pyrochlore AOs2O6 is discussed
on the basis of the conventional BCS scheme. Enhanced Tc and anomalous features
observed for KOs2O6 are ascribed to low-energy phonons probably coming from the
rattling of the K cations.Comment: 8 pages, to be published in the Proceedings of M2S-HTSC2006 (Physica
C
Lattice Distortion and Octupole Ordering Model in CexLa1-xB6
Possible order parameters of the phase IV in CexLa1-xB6 are discussed with
special attention to the lattice distortion recently observed. A
\Gamma_{5u}-type octupole order with finite wave number is proposed as the
origin of the distortion along the [111] direction. The \Gamma_8 crystalline
electric field (CEF) level splits into three levels by a mean field with the
\Gamma_{5u} symmetry. The ground and highest singlets have the same quadrupole
moment, while the intermediate doublet has an opposite sign. It is shown that
any collinear order of \Gamma_{5u}-type octupole moment accompanies the
\Gamma_{5g}-type ferro-quadrupole order, and the coupling of the quadrupole
moment with the lattice induces the distortion. The cusp in the magnetization
at the phase transition is reproduced, but the internal magnetic field due to
the octupole moment is smaller than the observed one by an order of magnitude.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, submitted to J. Phys. Soc. Jp
Perturbation theories for the S=1/2 spin ladder with four-spin ring exchange
The isotropic S=1/2 antiferromagnetic spin ladder with additional four-spin
ring exchange is studied perturbatively in the strong coupling regime with the
help of cluster expansion technique, and by means of bosonization in the weak
coupling limit. It is found that a sufficiently large strength of ring exchange
leads to a second-order phase transition, and the shape of the boundary in the
vicinity of the known exact transition point is obtained. The critical exponent
for the gap is found to be , in agreement both with exact results
available for the dimer line and with the bosonization analysis. The phase
emerging for high values of the ring exchange is argued to be gapped and
spontaneously dimerized. The results for the transition line from strong
coupling and from weak coupling match with each other naturally.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures, some minor changes in text and reference
Detection of Neutron Scattering from Phase IV of Ce0.7La0.3B6: A Confirmation of the Octupole Order
We have performed a single crystal neutron scattering experiment on
Ce0.7La0.3B6 to investigate the order parameter of phase IV microscopically.
Below the phase transition temperature 1.5 K of phase IV, weak but distinct
superlattice reflections at the scattering vector (h/2,h/2,l/2) (h, l = odd
number) have been observed by neutron scattering for the first time. The
intensity of the superlattice reflections is stronger for high scattering
vectors, which is quite different from the usual magnetic form factor of
magnetic dipoles. This result directly evidences that the order parameter of
phase IV has a complex magnetization density, consistent with the recent
experimental and theoretical prediction in which the order parameter is the
magnetic octupoles Tbeta with Gamma5 symmetry of point group Oh. Neutron
scattering experiments using short wavelength neutrons, as done in this study,
could become a general method to study the high-rank multipoles in f electron
systems.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
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