15 research outputs found
Magnetism and superconductivity in CeRh_{1-x}Ir_xIn_5 heavy fermion materials
We report on zero-field muon spin relaxation studies of cerium based
heavy-fermion materials CeRh_{1-x}Ir_xIn_5. In the superconducting x=0.75 and 1
compositions muon spin relaxation functions were found to be temperature
independent across T_c; no evidence for the presence of electronic magnetic
moments was observed. The x=0.5 material is antiferromagnetic below T_N=3.75 K
and superconducting below T_c=0.8 K. Muon spin realxation spectra show the
gradual onset of damped coherent oscillations characteristic of magnetic order
below T_N. At 1.65 K the total oscillating amplitude accounts for at least 85%
of the sample volume. No change in muon precession frequency or amplitude is
detected on cooling below T_c, indicating the microscopic coexistence of
magnetism and superconductivity in this material.Comment: 6 pages with 3 figures. Revision with corrected axis label (mK) in
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Intrinsic ferromagnetic impurity phases in SmFeAsO1-xFx detected by muSR
We report about muSR measurements on SmFeAsO1-xFx which helped us to identify
the signature of diluted ferromagnetic inclusions, ubiquitous in the iron
pnictides. These impurities are characterized by a Curie temperature close to
room temperature and they seem responsible for a non negligible magnetic
relaxation of the implanted muons, that should not be confused with intrinsic
pnictide properties.Comment: The International Conference on FeAs High Tc Superconducting
Multilayers and Related Phenomena (Superstripes2008), Rome, Italy, December
9-13, 200
Effects of domain walls on hole motion in the two-dimensional t-J model at finite temperature
The t-J model on the square lattice, close to the t-J_z limit, is studied by
quantum Monte Carlo techniques at finite temperature and in the underdoped
regime. A variant of the Hoshen-Koppelman algorithm was implemented to identify
the antiferromagnetic domains on each Trotter slice. The results show that the
model presents at high enough temperature finite antiferromagnetic (AF) domains
which collapse at lower temperatures into a single ordered AF state. While
there are domains, holes would tend to preferentially move along the domain
walls. In this case, there are indications of hole pairing starting at a
relatively high temperature. At lower temperatures, when the whole system
becomes essentially fully AF ordered, at least in finite clusters, holes would
likely tend to move within phase separated regions. The crossover between both
states moves down in temperature as doping increases and/or as the off-diagonal
exchange increases. The possibility of hole motion along AF domain walls at
zero temperature in the fully isotropic t-J is discussed.Comment: final version, to appear in Physical Review
Tomonaga–Luttinger liquid behavior and spinon confinement in YbAlO 3
Low dimensional quantum magnets are interesting because of the emerging collective behavior arising from strong quantum fluctuations. The one-dimensional (1D) S = 1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet is a paradigmatic example, whose low-energy excitations, known as spinons, carry fractional spin S = 1/2. These fractional modes can be reconfined by the application of a staggered magnetic field. Even though considerable progress has been made in the theoretical understanding of such magnets, experimental realizations of this low-dimensional physics are relatively rare. This is particularly true for rare-earth-based magnets because of the large effective spin anisotropy induced by the combination of strong spin–orbit coupling and crystal field splitting. Here, we demonstrate that the rare-earth perovskite YbAlO3 provides a realization of a quantum spin S = 1/2 chain material exhibiting both quantum critical Tomonaga–Luttinger liquid behavior and spinon confinement–deconfinement transitions in different regions of magnetic field–temperature phase diagram
Effect of a magnetic field on the spin- and charge-density wave order in La1.45Nd0.4Sr0.15CuO4
The spin-density wave (SDW) and charge-density wave (CDW) order in
superconducting La1.45Nd0.4Sr0.15CuO4 were studied under an applied magnetic
field using neutron and X-ray diffraction techniques. In zero field,
incommensurate (IC) SDW order appears below ~ 40 K, which is characterized by
neutron diffraction peaks at (1/2 +/- 0.134, 1/2 +/- 0.134, 0). The intensity
of these IC peaks increases rapidly below T_Nd ~ 8 K due to an ordering of the
Nd^3+ spins. The application of a 1 T magnetic field parallel to the c-axis
markedly diminishes the intensity below T_Nd, while only a slight decrease in
intensity is observed at higher temperatures for fields up to 7 T. Our
interpretation is that the c-axis field suppresses the parasitic Nd^3+ spin
order at the incommensurate wave vector without disturbing the stripe order of
Cu^2+ spins. Consistent with this picture, the CDW order, which appears below
60 K, shows no change for magnetic fields up to 4 T. These results stand in
contrast to the significant field-induced enhancement of the SDW order observed
in superconducting La2-xSrxCuO4 with x ~ 0.12 and stage-4 La2CuO4+y. The
differences can be understood in terms of the relative volume fraction
exhibiting stripe order in zero field, and the collective results are
consistent with the idea that suppression of superconductivity by vortices
nucleates local patches of stripe order.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figure
Thermodynamic properties of excess-oxygen-doped La2CuO4.11 near a simultaneous transition to superconductivity and long-range magnetic order
We have measured the specific heat and magnetization {\it versus} temperature
in a single crystal sample of superconducting LaCuO and in a
sample of the same material after removing the excess oxygen, in magnetic
fields up to 15 T. Using the deoxygenated sample to subtract the phonon
contribution, we find a broad peak in the specific heat, centered at 50 K. This
excess specific heat is attributed to fluctuations of the Cu spins possibly
enhanced by an interplay with the charge degrees of freedom, and appears to be
independent of magnetic field, up to 15 T. Near the superconducting transition
(=0)= 43 K, we find a sharp feature that is strongly suppressed when
the magnetic field is applied parallel to the crystallographic c-axis. A model
for 3D vortex fluctuations is used to scale magnetization measured at several
magnetic fields. When the magnetic field is applied perpendicular to the
c-axis, the only observed effect is a slight shift in the superconducting
transition temperature.Comment: 8 pages, 8 figure
Muon spin relaxation studies of incommensurate magnetism and superconductivity in stage-4 LaCuO and LaSrCuO
This paper reports muon spin relaxation (MuSR) measurements of two single
crystals of the title high-Tc cuprate systems where static incommensurate
magnetism and superconductivity coexist. By zero-field MuSR measurements and
subsequent analyses with simulations, we show that (1) the maximum ordered Cu
moment size (0.36 Bohr magneton) and local spin structure are identical to
those in prototypical stripe spin systems with the 1/8 hole concentration; (2)
the static magnetism is confined to less than a half of the volume of the
sample, and (3) regions with static magnetism form nano-scale islands with the
size comparable to the in-plane superconducting coherence length. By
transverse-field MuSR measurements, we show that Tc of these systems is related
to the superfluid density, in the same way as observed in cuprate systems
without static magnetism. We discuss a heuristic model involving percolation of
these nanoscale islands with static magnetism as a possible picture to
reconcile heterogeneity found by the present MuSR study and long-range spin
correlations found by neutron scattering.Comment: 19 pages, 15 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. B. E-mail:
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Muon spin relaxation and susceptibility measurements of an itinerant-electron system Sr 1-xCa xRuO 3: Quantum evolution from ferromagnet to paramagnet
Muon spin relaxation (\u3bcSR) and magnetic susceptibility measurements have been performed in the itinerant-electron magnet Sr 1-xCa xRuO 3, with x= 0.0, 0.3, 0.5, 0.65, 0.7, 0.75, 0.8, 0.9, and 1.0. SrRuO 3 is a ferromagnet with the critical temperature T c 3c160 K. Upon (Sr, Ca) substitution, T c decreases monotonically with increasing Ca concentration x and the ferromagnetic order disappears around x= 0.7. Very weak static magnetism is observed in the x= 0.75 and 0.8 systems, while the x= 0.9 and 1.0 systems remain paramagnetic in their full volume. Phase separation between volumes with and without static magnetism was observed in the x= 0.65, 0.7, 0.75, and 0.8 systems, near the magnetic crossover around x= 0.7. In this concentration region, \u3bcSR measurements revealed discontinuous evolution of magnetic properties in contrast to magnetization measurements, which exhibit seemingly continuous evolution. Unlike the volume-integrated magnetization measurements, \u3bcSR can separate the effects of the ordered moment size and the volume fraction of magnetically ordered regions. The muon spin relaxation rate 1/T 1 exhibits critical slowing down of spin fluctuations near T c in the ferromagnetic systems with x= 0.0-0.65, consistent with the behavior expected in the self-consistent renormalization theory of itinerant electron ferromagnets. The lack of maximum of 1/T 1 in the x= 0.7 system indicates the disappearance of critical slowing down. These results demonstrate a first-order quantum evolution in the ferromagnet to paramagnet crossover near x= 0.7. \ua9 2011 American Physical Society.Peer reviewed: YesNRC publication: Ye