Sonier J E, Poon K F, Luke G M, Kyriakou P, Miller R I, Liang R, Wiebe C R, Fournier P, Greene R L
Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada.
Phys Rev Lett. 2003 Oct 3;91(14):147002. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.147002. Epub 2003 Sep 29.
We report muon-spin rotation and relaxation (muSR) measurements on single crystals of the electron-doped high-T(c) superconductor Pr2-xCexCuO4. In a zero external magnetic field, superconductivity is found to coexist with dilute Cu spins that are static on the muSR time scale. In an applied field, we observe a mu(+)-Knight shift that is primarily due to the magnetic moment induced on the Pr ions. Below the superconducting transition temperature T(c), an additional source of local magnetic field appears throughout the volume of the sample. This finding is shown to be consistent with field-induced antiferromagnetic ordering of the Cu spins. Measurements of the temperature dependence of the in-plane magnetic penetration depth lambda(ab) in the vortex state are also presented.
我们报告了对电子掺杂的高温超导体Pr2-xCexCuO4单晶进行的μ子自旋旋转和弛豫(μSR)测量。在零外磁场中,发现超导性与在μSR时间尺度上静止的稀Cu自旋共存。在施加磁场时,我们观察到一个μ(+) - 奈特位移,这主要是由于Pr离子上感应的磁矩所致。在超导转变温度Tc以下,整个样品体积中出现了局部磁场的额外来源。这一发现被证明与Cu自旋的场致反铁磁有序相一致。还给出了涡旋态下平面内磁穿透深度λ(ab)的温度依赖性测量结果。