3,085 research outputs found
Magnetic-field effects on the in-plane electrical resistivity in the single-crystal LaBaCuO and LaNdSrCuO around : Relating to the field-induced stripe order
Temperature dependence of the in-plane electrical resistivity, , in various magnetic fields has been measured in the single-crystal
LaBaCuO with , 0.10, 0.11 and
LaNdSrCuO with . It has been found that the
superconducting transition curve shows a so-called fan-shape broadening in
magnetic fields for , while it shifts toward the low-temperature side
in parallel with increasing field for and 0.12 where the charge-spin
stripe order is formed at low temperatures. As for , the broadening is
observed in low fields and it changes to the parallel shift in high fields
above 9 T. Moreover, the normal-state value of at low
temperatures markedly increases with increasing field up to 15 T. It is
possible that these pronounced features of are understood in terms of
the magnetic-field-induced stabilization of the stripe order suggested from the
neutron-scattering measurements in the La-214 system. The in
the normal state at low temperatures has been found to be proportional to
ln(1/) for , 0.11 and 0.12. The ln(1/) dependence of is robust even in the stripe-ordered state.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures, ver. 2 has been accepted for publication in Phys.
Rev.
Search for long-lived massive particles in extensive air showers
Air showers containing delayed sub-showers which may be produced by a long-lived massive particle have been investigated by using twelve detectors. Ten events have been selected out as the candidates. However, a definite conclusion cannot be reached at the present time
Wilson ratio of a Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid in a spin-1/2 Heisenberg ladder
Using micromechanical force magnetometry, we have measured the magnetization
of the strong-leg spin-1/2 ladder compound (CHN)CuBr at
temperatures down to 45 mK. Low-temperature magnetic susceptibility as a
function of field exhibits a maximum near the critical field H_c at which the
magnon gap vanishes, as expected for a gapped one-dimensional antiferromagnet.
Above H_c a clear minimum appears in the magnetization as a function of
temperature as predicted by theory. In this field region, the susceptibility in
conjunction with our specific heat data yields the Wilson ratio R_W. The result
supports the relation R_W=4K, where K is the Tomonaga-Luttinger-liquid
parameter
Synthesis of infinite-layer LaNiO2 films by metal-organic deposition
We report the synthesis of infinite-layer LaNiO2 thin films by metal organic
decomposition. Our work is aimed to synthesize perovskite-like oxides with 3d9
electronic configuration, which is common to high-Tc copper oxides. The 3d9
configuration is very rare in oxides other than cuprates. Ni1+ oxides, even
though Ni1+ is an unusual oxidation state, may be one of very few candidates.
One example of the Ni1+ phases is infinite-layer LaNiO2. The bulk synthesis of
LaNiO2 is difficult, but we demonstrate in this article that the thin-film
synthesis of LaNiO2 by metal organic decomposition is rather easy. This is due
to the advantage of thin films with a large-surface-to-volume ratio, which
makes oxygen diffusion prompt. Resistivity measurements indicate that LaNiO2 is
essentially a metal but unfortunately with no trace of superconductivity yet.Comment: 13 pages, 4 figure
Generic phase diagram of "electron-doped" T' cuprates
We investigated the generic phase diagram of the electron doped
superconductor, Nd2-xCexCuO4, using films prepared by metal organic
decomposition. After careful oxygen reduction treatment to remove interstitial
Oap atoms, we found that the Tc increases monotonically from 24 K to 29 K with
decreasing x from 0.15 to 0.00, demonstrating a quite different phase diagram
from the previous bulk one. The implication of our results is discussed on the
basis of tremendous influence of Oap "impurities" on superconductivity and also
magnetism in T' cuprates. Then we conclude that our result represents the
generic phase diagram for oxygen-stoichiometric Nd2-xCexCuO4.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figures; International Symposium on Superconductivity
(ISS) 200
Neutron Scattering Study of Temperature-Concentration Phase Diagram of (Cu1-xMgx)GeO3
In doped CuGeO3 systems, such as (Cu1-xZnx)GeO3 and Cu(Ge1-xSix)O3, the
spin-Peierls (SP) ordering (T<Tsp) coexists with the antiferromagnetic (AF)
phase (T<TN<Tsp). Tsp decreases while TN increases with increasing x in low
doping region. For higher x, however, the SP state disappears and only the AF
state remains. These features are common for all the doped CuGeO3 systems so
far studied, indicating the existence of universal T-x phase diagram. Recently,
Masuda et al. carried out comprehensive magnetic susceptibility (chi)
measurements of (Cu1-xMgx)GeO3, in which doping concentration can be controlled
significantly better than the Zn doped systems. They found that TN suddenly
jumps from 3.43 to 3.98K at the critical concentration xc sim 0.023 and that a
drop in chi corresponding to the SP ordering also disappears at x>xc. They thus
concluded that there is a compositional phase boundary between two distinct
magnetic phases. To clarify the nature of two phases, we performed
neutron-scattering measurements on (Cu1-xMgx)GeO3 single crystals with various
x. Analysis of the data at fixed temperature points as a function of doping
concentration has revealed sudden changes of order parameters at the critical
concentration xc=0.027 +- 0.001. At finite temperatures below TN, the drastic
increase of the AF moment takes place at xc. The spin-Peierls order parameter
delta associated with lattice dimerization shows a precipitous decrease at all
temperature below Tsp. However, it goes to zero above xc only at the low
temperature limit.Comment: 9 pages, 9 figure
- …