Published April 1997 | Version v1
Journal article

Spin-freezing in superconducting La2CuO4.03 single crystal

  • 1. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (Russian Federation)
  • 2. Institut fuer Teilchenphysik der ETH Zuerich (Switzerland)
  • 3. Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) (Switzerland)
  • 4. RSC 'Kurchatov Institute' (Russian Federation)

Description

Electron spin-freezing at Tf=8 K has been detected in superconducting (Tc=12 K) single crystal La2CuO4+y (y ≅ 0.03) by ZF-μSR. According to diffraction data, the crystal is in Bmab phase without any traces of structural phase separation. TF-μSR experiment has shown that no Abrikosov flux line lattice is formed below Tc. The data allow us to assume that the magnetic and superconducting regions in the crystal are space separated on the microscopic scales ∼ 102 A. The presence of large field induced broadening of the Knight shift distribution kσ > 1000 ppm indicates that the crystal contains micro-regions possessing enhanced magnetic susceptibility

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Journal Title
Hyperfine Interactions
Journal Volume
105
Journal Issue
1-4
Journal Page Range
p. 83-88
ISSN
0304-3843
CODEN
HYINDN

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Copyright (c) 1997 Kluwer Academic Publishers