La139 NMR investigation of the charge and spin order in a La1.885Sr0.115CuO4 single crystal

Arsenault, A.; Takahashi, S. K.; Imai, T.; He, W.; Lee, Y. S.; Fujita, M.

doi:10.1103/physrevb.97.064511

Title: ${}^{139}{La}$ NMR investigation of the charge and spin order in a ${La}_{1.885} {Sr}_{0.115} {CuO}_{4}$ single crystal

Journal Article · Wed Feb 14 00:00:00 EST 2018 · Physical Review B

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.97.064511· OSTI ID:1423541

Arsenault, A. ^[1]; Takahashi, S. K. ^[1]; Imai, T. ^[2]; He, W. ^[3]; Lee, Y. S. ^[3]; Fujita, M. ^[4]

McMaster Univ., Hamilton, ON (Canada). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
McMaster Univ., Hamilton, ON (Canada). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy; Canadian Inst. for Advanced Research, Toronto, ON (Canada)
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science (SIMES); Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Dept. of Applied Physics
Tohoku Univ., Sendai (Japan). Inst. for Materials Research

¹³⁹La NMR is suited for investigations into magnetic properties of La₂CuO₄ -based cuprates in the vicinity of their magnetic instabilities, owing to the modest hyperfine interactions between ¹³⁹La nuclear spins and Cu electron spins. We report comprehensive ¹³⁹La NMR measurements on a single-crystal sample of high-T_c superconductor La 1.885 Sr 0.115 CuO₄ in a broad temperature range across the charge and spin order transitions (T charge ≃ 80 K, T neutron spin ≃ T_c = 30 K). From the high-precision measurements of the linewidth for the nuclear spin I_z = + 1 / 2 to -1/2 central transition, we show that paramagnetic line broadening sets in precisely at T charge due to enhanced spin correlations within the CuO₂ planes. Additional paramagnetic line broadening ensues below ~35 K, signaling that Cu spins in some segments of CuO₂ planes are on the verge of three-dimensional magnetic order. A static hyperfine magnetic field arising from ordered Cu moments along the ab plane, however, begins to develop only below T$$μSR\atop{spin}$$ = 15 – 20 K, where earlier muon spin rotation measurements detected Larmor precession for a small volume fraction (~20 % ) of the sample. Based on the measurement of 139 La nuclear-spin-lattice relaxation rate 1/T₁, we also show that charge order triggers enhancement of low-frequency Cu spin fluctuations inhomogeneously; a growing fraction of 139 La sites is affected by enhanced low-frequency spin fluctuations toward the eventual magnetic order, whereas a diminishing fraction continues to exhibit a behavior analogous to the optimally superconducting phase even below T_charge. In conclusion, these ¹³⁹La NMR results corroborate our recent ⁶³Cu NMR observation that a very broad, anomalous winglike signal gradually emerges below T_charge, whereas the normally behaving, narrower main peak is gradually wiped out [T. Imai et al., Phys. Rev. B 96, 224508 (2017)]. Furthermore, we show that the enhancement of low-energy spin excitations in the low-temperature regime below Tneutron spin (≃ Tc) depends strongly on the magnitude and orientation of the applied magnetic field.

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Research Organization:: SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-76SF00515; 16H02125

OSTI ID:: 1423541

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1420490

Journal Information:: Physical Review B, Vol. 97, Issue 6; ISSN 2469-9950

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