Incipient charge order observed by NMR in the normal state of YBa2Cu3Oy

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Wu, Tao ^a,d   Mayaffre, Hadrien ^a   Krämer, Steffen ^a   Horvatic, Mladen ^a   Berthier, Claude ^a   Hardy, W N ^b,c   Liang, Ruixing ^b,c   Bonn, D A ^b,c   Julien, Marc Henri ^a  

^a GRENOBLE HIGH MAGNETIC FIELD LABORATORY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NIOBIUM;

HIGH TEMPERATURE; MAGNETIC FIELD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

ARTICLE; DENSITY; ELECTRONICS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MODULATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84924370924     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7438     Document Type: Article

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