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Comparison of nuclear spin relaxation rates at Y and O sites in YBa[sub 2]Cu[sub 3]O[sub 7[minus][ital y]]

Journal Article · · Physical Review Letters; (United States)
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  1. IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (United States) Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 (United States)

We report a detailed comparison of the [sup 89]Y and the planar [sup 17]O NMR shifts [ital K] and spin-lattice relaxation rates 1/[ital T][sub 1] in oriented YBa[sub 2]Cu[sub 3]O[sub 7[minus][ital y]] powder with [ital y][congruent]0 and [ital y]=0.37. For [ital y]=0.37, the ratio [ital R] of the O relaxation rate to the Y relaxation rate increases with decreasing temperature above [ital T][sub [ital c]] and [ital T][sub 1][ital TK] at Y sites is not constant, which suggests that the antiferromagnetic spin correlations between adjacent CuO[sub 2] layers grow with decreasing temperature. The magnitude of [ital R] in both [ital y]=0.37 and [ital y][congruent]0 is smaller than evaluated from an ionic model of the hyperfine Hamiltonian.

OSTI ID:
5937995
Journal Information:
Physical Review Letters; (United States), Journal Name: Physical Review Letters; (United States) Vol. 71:16; ISSN 0031-9007; ISSN PRLTAO
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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