Muon spin relaxation and magnetic susceptibility studies of the effects of nonmagnetic impurities on the Cu spin dynamics and superconductivity in La 2-xSrxCu1-yZnyO4 around x=0.115

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 18, 2004, Pages

  Adachi, T ^a   Yairi, S ^a   Takahashi, K ^a   Koike, Y ^a   Watanabe, I ^b   Nagamine, K ^c  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS STRUCTURE SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; LANTHANUM; OXIDE; STRONTIUM; ZINC;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONDUCTANCE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPOLARIZATION; DYNAMICS; MAGNETISM; MEASUREMENT; MOTION; MUON; ROTATION; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 42749106911     PISSN: 01631829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.69.184507     Document Type: Article

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