Published December 1, 1989 | Version v1
Journal article

Antiferromagnetic ordering in superconducting and oxygen-deficient nonsuperconducting RBa2Cu3O7-δ compounds (R=Nd and Sm)

  • 1. Department of Physics and Institute for Pure and Applied Physical Sciences, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093 (USA)
  • 2. National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899 (USA)
  • 3. Center for Superconductivity Research, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742

Description

Low-temperature (0.5--4 K) specific-heat measurements have been made on oxygen-deficient (δ∼0.5) nonsuperconducting RBa2Cu3O7-δ (R=Nd and Sm) compounds and compared to measurements previously performed on their high-critical-temperature Tc∼92 K superconducting counterparts (δ∼0.1). We show that the specific-heat anomaly due to magnetic ordering of the Nd3+ and Sm3+ ions in the Tc∼92 K superconducting RBa2Cu3O7-δ (R=Nd and Sm) compounds can be well described by a two-dimensional anisotropic antiferromagnetic Ising model with exchange-interaction parameters E1 and E2 in the a-b plane; the respective values of the Neel temperature TN and the ratio E1/E2 are 0.5 K and 50 for Nd and 0.61 K and 11 for Sm

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review, B: Condensed Matter
Journal Volume
40
Journal Issue
16
Series
Phys. Rev., B: Condens. Matter.
Journal Page Range
10963-10972
ISSN
0163-1829
CODEN
PRBMD