Effect of covalent bonding on magnetism and the missing neutron intensity in copper oxide compounds

Nature Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 867-872

  Walters, Andrew C ^a,b,c   Perring, Toby G ^a,b   Caux, Jean Sébastien ^d   Savici, Andrei T ^e   Gu, Genda D ^e   Lee, Chi Cheng ^e   Ku, Wei ^e   Zaliznyak, Igor A ^e  

^a RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON CENTRE FOR NANOTECHNOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER OXIDES; MAGNETISM; NEUTRON SCATTERING;

ABSOLUTE INTENSITY; HIGH-TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; MAGNETIC EXCITATIONS; MAGNETIC SCATTERING; NEUTRON INTENSITIES; NEUTRON SCATTERING EXPERIMENTS; QUANTITATIVE MEASURES; SUPERCONDUCTING STATE;

SPIN FLUCTUATIONS;

EID: 71449121880     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1405     Document Type: Article

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