89Y nuclear magnetic resonance study of Ca-doped Y1xCaxBa2Cu3Oy from the underdoped to the overdoped superconducting regime

P. Carretta, A. Lascialfari, A. Rigamonti, P. Tedesco, F. Tedoldi, and I. A. Larionov
Phys. Rev. B 69, 104512 – Published 19 March 2004
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Abstract

89Y NMR linewidth, Knight shift, spin-echo dephasing, and spin-lattice relaxation measurements have been carried out in Y1xCaxBa2Cu3Oy. Underdoped and overdoped samples have been obtained by means of Y3+ for Ca2+ substitutions in the parent chain-empty antiferromagnetic (AF) YBa2Cu3O6.1 and in the chain-full YBa2Cu3O7, respectively. Unexpected effects, as the divergence of relaxation rate with the concurrent broadening of the NMR line in the underdoped superconducting phase and the inadequacy of the Korringa relation between the relaxation rate 1/T1 and Knight shift, even in the overdoped regime, suggest that a revision of the commonly accepted view of YBa2Cu3O6+y compounds is required. In particular the linear temperature dependence of T11 and the temperature behavior of Knight shift cannot be accounted for over all the temperature range. In the underdoped superconducting phase the divergence of 1/T1 on cooling is associated with the slowing down of excitations possibly related to sliding motions of orbital currents, or with the concurrent freezing of AF correlated spins. Echo-dephasing measurements evidence an extreme slowing down of longitudinal spin fluctuations which appear to be driven by a different dynamic, related either to flux line motions or to 63,65Cu spin-lattice relaxation.

  • Received 30 January 2003

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.69.104512

©2004 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

P. Carretta, A. Lascialfari, A. Rigamonti, P. Tedesco, and F. Tedoldi

  • Department of Physics A.Volta and INFM Unit, University of Pavia, Pavia I 27100, Italy

I. A. Larionov

  • Magnetic Resonance Laboratory, Physics Department, Kazan State University, Kazan 420008, Russia

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Vol. 69, Iss. 10 — 1 March 2004

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