Incommensurate spin fluctuations in high-transition temperature superconductors

Science

Volumn 277, Issue 5329, 1997, Pages 1067-1071

  Wells, B O ^a   Lee, Y S ^a   Kastner, M A ^a   Christianson, R J ^a   Birgeneau, R J ^a   Yamada, K ^b   Endoh, Y ^b   Shirane, G ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; LANTHANUM COMPOUNDS; LATTICE VIBRATIONS; NEUTRON SCATTERING; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; TEMPERATURE;

HOLE DOPING; LANTHANUM CUPRATES; SPIN FLUCTUATIONS;

HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; NEUTRON SCATTERING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICONDUCTOR; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 1842407821     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.277.5329.1067     Document Type: Article

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21. We thank F. C. Chou, M. Greven, and J. M. Tranquada for valuable discussions. The work at MIT was supported by the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center Program of the NSF under award number DMR 94-00334 and by the NSF under award number DMR 97-04532. Research at Brookhaven National Laboratory was carried out under contract No. DE-AC-2-76CH00016, Division of Material Science, U.S. Department of Energy. The work at Tohoku University was supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research in Priority Areas and the U.S.-Japan Collaboration Program on Neutron Scattering sponsored by the Japanese Monbusho.