Impurity-induced moments in underdoped cuprates
- Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik komplexer Systeme, Noethnitzer Str. 38, D-01187 Dresden (Germany)
- Kazan Physicotechnical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 420029 Kazan (Russia)
We examine the effect of a nonmagnetic impurity in a two-dimensional spin liquid in the spin-gap phase, employing a drone-fermion representation of spin-1/2 operators. The properties of the local moment induced in the vicinity of the impurity are investigated and an expression for the nuclear-magnetic-resonance Knight shift is derived, which we compare with experimental results. Introducing a second impurity into the spin liquid an antiferromagnetic interaction between the moments is found when the two impurities are located on different sublattices. The presence of many impurities leads to a screening of this interaction as is shown by means of a coherent-potential approximation. Further, the Kondo screening of an impurity-induced local spin by charge carriers is discussed. {copyright} {ital 1997} {ital The American Physical Society}
- OSTI ID:
- 544943
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review, B: Condensed Matter, Vol. 56, Issue 18; Other Information: PBD: Nov 1997
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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