13 research outputs found
Local moment formation in zinc doped cuprates
We suggest that when zinc is substituted for copper in the copper oxide
planes of high superconductors, it does not necessarily have a valency
of 2+. Rather, the valency of a zinc impurity should be determined by its
surrounding medium. In order to study this hypothesis, we examine the effect of
static impurities inducing diagonal disorder within a one band Hubbard model
coupled to a localised state. We use this model to discuss the physics of zinc
doping in the cuprates. Specifically, we discuss the formation of local moments
near impurity sites and the modification of the transverse spin susceptibility
in the antiferromagnetic state.Comment: 7 pages RevTex, includes 4 figure
Isotope Effect for the Penetration Depth in Superconductors
We show that various factors can lead to an isotopic dependence of the
penetration depth . Non-adiabaticity (Jahn-Teller crossing) leads to
the isotope effect of the charge carrier concentration and, consequently,
of in doped superconductors such as the cuprates. A general equation
relating the isotope coefficients of and of is presented for
London superconductors. We further show that the presence of magnetic
impurities or a proximity contact also lead to an isotopic dependence of
; the isotope coefficient turns out to be temperature dependent,
, in these cases. The existence of the isotope effect for the
penetration depth is predicted for conventional as well as for high-temperature
superconductors. Various experiments are proposed and/or discussed.Comment: 11 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.
Specific Heat of Zn-Doped YBa_{2}Cu_3O_{6.95}: Possible Evidence for Kondo Screening in the Superconducting State
The magnetic field dependence of the specific heat of Zn-doped single
crystals of YBa_{2}Cu_3O_{6.95} was measured between 2 and 10 K and up to 8
Tesla. Doping levels of 0, 0.15%, 0.31%, and 1% were studied and compared. In
particular we searched for the Schottky anomaly associated with the Zn-induced
magnetic moments.Comment: 5 pages, 6 figure
Polarized x-ray absorption spectra of CuGeO3 at the Cu and Ge K edges
Polarized x-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) spectra at both the Cu
and the Ge K-edges of CuGeO3 are measured and calculated relying on the
real-space multiple-scattering formalism within a one-electron approach. The
polarization components are resolved not only in the unit cell coordinate
system but also in a local frame attached to the nearest neighborhood of the
photoabsorbing Cu atom. In that way, features which resist a particular
theoretical description can be identified. We have found that it is the
out-of-CuO4-plane p_{z'} component which defies the one-electron calculation
based on the muffin-tin potential. For the Ge K-edge XANES, the agreement
between the theory and the experiment appears to be better for those
polarization components which probe more compact local surroundings than for
those which probe regions with lower atomic density. Paper published in Phys.
Rev. B 66, 155119 (2002) and available on-line at
http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRB/v66/e155119.Comment: 15 pages, 6 figures. Published in Physical Review B, abstract
available on-line at http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRB/e15511
suppression in co-doped striped cuprates
We propose a model that explains the reduction of due to the pinning of
stripes by planar impurity co-doping in cuprates. A geometrical argument about
the planar fraction of carriers affected by stripe pinning leads to a a linear
suppression as a function of impurity concentration . The critical
value for the vanishing of superconductivity is shown to scale like
in the under-doped regime and becomes universal in the optimally- and
over-doped regimes. Our theory agrees very well with the experimental data in
single- and bi-layer cuprates co-doped with Zn, Li, Co, etc...Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Phenomenon of anti-Bragg magnetic neutron diffraction
Elastic magnetic scattering of slow neutrons by a N-electron target is considered. Contrary to the usual approximation that neutron is scattered by each atomic spin independently, the scattering by the whole target spin system is considered. The complete set of the total spin square eigenfunctions is used for the target degenerate ground state. Explicit analytical expressions for the scattering amplitude and differential cross-section are obtained. A new type (anti-Bragg) of angular dependence of the differential cross-section has been obtained for some target Hamiltonians
Theoretical approach to the magnetostructural correlations in spin-Peierls compound CuGeO3
A theoretical density-functional study has been carried out to analyze the exchange coupling in the chains of CuGeO3 using discrete models. The results show a good agreement with the experimental exchange coupling constant (J) together with a strong dependence of J with the Cu-O-Cu angle. The calculation of the J values for a distorted model indicates a larger degree of dimerization than those reported previously