TY - JOUR
T1 - μsR and thermal conductivity studies on inhomogeneity of the impurity- and field-induced magnetism and superconductivity in high-Tc cuprates
AU - Koike, Y.
AU - Adachi, T.
AU - Oki, N.
AU - Risdiana,
AU - Yamazaki, M.
AU - Kawamata, T.
AU - Noji, T.
AU - Kudo, K.
AU - Kobayashi, N.
AU - Watanabe, I.
AU - Nagamine, K.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan, and also by CREST of Japan Science and Technology Corporation.
PY - 2005/10/1
Y1 - 2005/10/1
N2 - The inhomogeneity of the impurity- and field-induced magnetic order and superconductivity has been investigated in the hole-doped La 2-xSrxCuO4 (LSCO), La2-xBa xCuO4 (LBCO) and the electron-doped Pr 1-xLaCexCuO4 (PLCCO). For the hole-doped cuprates, it has been found from the muon-spin-relaxation measurements that both Zn and Ni impurities tend to develop a magnetic order and to destroy the superconductivity around themselves not only around p (the hole concentration per Cu) = 1/8 but also at x = 0.15 and 0.18 in LSCO, though the development of the magnetic order by Zn is more marked than by Ni. Moreover, it has been found from the thermal conductivity measurements that the development of the magnetic order by the application of magnetic field is marked not just at p = 1/8 but in the neighborhood of p = 1/8 in LSCO and LBCO. The impurity- and field-induced magnetic order in the hole-doped cuprates can be interpreted as being due to pinning of the dynamical stripes of holes and spins by impurities and vortex cores in the CuO2 plane, respectively. For the electron-doped PLCCO with x = 0.14, on the contrary, no impurity-induced magnetic order has been observed. The reason is discussed.
AB - The inhomogeneity of the impurity- and field-induced magnetic order and superconductivity has been investigated in the hole-doped La 2-xSrxCuO4 (LSCO), La2-xBa xCuO4 (LBCO) and the electron-doped Pr 1-xLaCexCuO4 (PLCCO). For the hole-doped cuprates, it has been found from the muon-spin-relaxation measurements that both Zn and Ni impurities tend to develop a magnetic order and to destroy the superconductivity around themselves not only around p (the hole concentration per Cu) = 1/8 but also at x = 0.15 and 0.18 in LSCO, though the development of the magnetic order by Zn is more marked than by Ni. Moreover, it has been found from the thermal conductivity measurements that the development of the magnetic order by the application of magnetic field is marked not just at p = 1/8 but in the neighborhood of p = 1/8 in LSCO and LBCO. The impurity- and field-induced magnetic order in the hole-doped cuprates can be interpreted as being due to pinning of the dynamical stripes of holes and spins by impurities and vortex cores in the CuO2 plane, respectively. For the electron-doped PLCCO with x = 0.14, on the contrary, no impurity-induced magnetic order has been observed. The reason is discussed.
KW - 1/8 anomaly
KW - Field-induced magnetic order
KW - Impurity effect
KW - Muon-spin-relaxation
KW - Stripe
KW - Thermal conductivity
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U2 - 10.1016/j.physc.2005.02.033
DO - 10.1016/j.physc.2005.02.033
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:25644439176
SN - 0921-4534
VL - 426-431
SP - 189
EP - 195
JO - Physica C: Superconductivity and its Applications
JF - Physica C: Superconductivity and its Applications
IS - I
T2 - Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Superconductivity (ISS 2004) Advances in Supeconductivity
Y2 - 23 November 2004 through 25 November 2004
ER -