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Microscopic origin of local moments in a zinc-doped high- superconductor
The formation of a local moment around a zinc impurity in the high-
cuprate superconductors is studied within the framework of the bosonic
resonating-valence-bond (RVB) description of the model. A topological
origin of the local moment has been shown based on the phase string effect in
the bosonic RVB theory. It is found that such an moment distributes
near the zinc in a form of staggered magnetic moments at the copper sites. The
corresponding magnetic properties, including NMR spin relaxation rate, uniform
spin susceptibility, and dynamic spin susceptibility, etc., calculated based on
the theory, are consistent with the experimental measurements. Our work
suggests that the zinc substitution in the cuprates provide an important
experimental evidence for the RVB nature of local physics in the original (zinc
free) state.Comment: The topological reason of local moment formation is given. One figure
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Tunable temperature induced magnetization jump in a GdVO3 single crystal
We report a novel feature of the temperature induced magnetization jump
observed along the a-axis of the GdVO3 single crystal at temperature TM = 0.8
K. Below TM, the compound shows no coercivity and remanent magnetization
indicating a homogenous antiferromagnetic structure. However, we will
demonstrate that the magnetic state below TM is indeed history dependent and it
shows up in different jumps in the magnetization only when warming the sample
through TM. Such a magnetic memory effect is highly unusual and suggesting
different domain arrangements in the supposedly homogenous antiferromagnetic
phase of the compound.Comment: 17 pages, 8 Figure
Comment on "Localized behavior near the Zn impurity in YBa2Cu4O8 as measured by nuclear quadrupole resonance"
Williams and Kramer [Phys. Rev. B {\bf 64}, 104506 (2001)] have recently
argued against the existence of staggered magnetic moments residing on several
lattice sites around Zn impurities in YBCO superconductors. This claim, which
is in line with an earlier publication by Williams, Tallon and Dupree [Phys.
Rev. B {\bf 61}, 4319 (2000)], is however in contradiction with a large body of
experimental data from different NMR groups. On the contrary, the authors argue
in favor of a very localized spin and charge density on Cu sites first
neighbors to Zn. We show that the conclusions of Williams and Kramer arise from
erroneous interpretations of NMR and NQR data.Comment: 4 page
Bose-Einstein condensation of triplons in the S=1 tetramer antiferromagnet K2Ni2(MoO4)3: A compound close to quantum critical point
The structure of K2Ni2(MoO4)3 consists of S=1 tetramers formed by Ni^{2+}
ions. The magnetic susceptibility chi(T) and specific heat Cp(T) data on a
single crystal show a broad maximum due to the low-dimensionality of the system
with short-range spin correlations. A sharp peak is seen in chi(T) and Cp(T) at
about 1.13 K, well below the broad maximum. This is an indication of magnetic
long-range order i.e., the absence of spin-gap in the ground state.
Interestingly, the application of a small magnetic field (H>0.1 T) induces
magnetic behavior akin to Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) of triplon
excitations observed in some spin-gap materials. Our results demonstrate that
the temperature-field (T-H) phase boundary follows a power-law
(T-T_{N})propotional to H^(1/alpha) with the exponent 1/alpha close to 2/3, as
predicted for BEC scenario. The observation of BEC of triplon excitations in
small H infers that K2Ni2(MoO4)3 is located in the proximity of a quantum
critical point, which separates the magnetically ordered and spin-gap regions
of the phase diagram.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures, Accepted in Phys. Rev. B Rapid Communication
Antiferromagnetism of ZnVO(PO and the dilution with Ti
We report static and dynamic properties of the antiferromagnetic compound
Zn(VO)(PO), and the consequences of non-magnetic Ti
doping at the V site. P nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra
and spin-lattice relaxation rate () consistently show the formation of
the long-range antiferromagnetic order below \,K. The critical
exponent estimated from the temperature dependence of the
sublattice magnetization measured by P NMR at 9.4\,MHz is consistent
with universality classes of three-dimensional spin models. The isotropic and
axial hyperfine couplings between the P nuclei and V spins are
Oe/ and Oe/, respectively. Magnetic susceptibility
data above 6.5\,K and heat capacity data above 4.5\,K are well described by
quantum Monte-Carlo simulations for the Heisenberg model on the square lattice
with \,K. This value of is consistent with the values obtained
from the NMR shift, and electron spin resonance (ESR) intensity
analysis. Doping ZnVO(PO with non-magnetic Ti leads to a
marginal increase in the value and the overall dilution of the spin
lattice. In contrast to the recent \textit{ab initio} results, we find neither
evidence for the monoclinic structural distortion nor signatures of the
magnetic one-dimensionality for doped samples with up to 15\% of Ti. The
N\'eel temperature decreases linearly with increasing the amount of
the non-magnetic dopant.Comment: 13 pages, 12 figures, 2 table
Chemical solution deposition of single phase BiFeO3 thin films on transparent substrates
The production of high quality BiFeO3 thin films on cost-effective transparent electrodes for visible light harvesting applications and devices remains a challenge. Here, we report the production of single-phase nanostructured BiFeO3 thin films via chemical solution deposition (CSD) on transparent conductive fluorine doped tin oxide FTO glass substrates. We show that the BiFeO3 is of high purity using a variety of analytical tools and that the as-obtained BiFeO3 thin films have a single grain single domain structure exhibiting ferroelectric switching under poling. The BiFeO3 samples show visible light absorption with a band gap of 2.7 eV under all processing conditions. By changing the annealing atmosphere it was possible to modify the photocurrent produced, which were (at 1.23 VNHE) 0.07 mA/cm2 (O2-annealed), 0.02 mA/cm2 (air-annealed) and 0.01 mA/cm2 (Ar-annealed). This indicates a change in the mobile carriers available. Our results show that it is possible to produce single phase BiFeO3 on a transparent conductive electrode system with controllable photoconductivity
Quantum Monte Carlo study of a nonmagnetic impurity in the two-dimensional Hubbard model
In order to investigate the effects of nonmagnetic impurities in strongly
correlated systems, Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations have been carried out
for the doped two-dimensional Hubbard model with one nonmagnetic impurity.
Using a bare impurity potential which is onsite and attractive, magnetic and
single-particle properties have been calculated. The QMC results show that
giant oscillations develop in the Knight shift response around the impurity
site due to the short-range antiferromagnetic correlations. These results are
useful for interpreting the NMR data on Li and Zn substituted layered cuprates.Comment: 10 pages, 7 figure
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