Abstract
The authors report nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rates, , for planar copper and oxygen sites in the superconducting state of . These measurements were made with the static magnetic field along the c axis at a variety of static magnetic-field strengths. The data show that the relaxation rate of depends on magnetic-field strength at low temperature and confirm a similar result for . The importance of these measurements is that they give the zero-field limit necessary for comparison with theory. The weak-field data at low temperature for both copper and oxygen have a temperature dependence close to , which is the result expected for spin-singlet, orbital d-wave pairing and does not seem compatible with orbital s-wave pairing.
- Received 12 November 1992
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.47.9155
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