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Pressure tuning of structure, superconductivity, and novel magnetic order in the Ce-underdoped electron-doped cuprate T ′−Pr1.3−x La0.7CexCuO4 ( x = 0.1 )

Published inPhysical review. B, vol. 96, no. 9, 094515
Publication date2017-09-14
First online date2017-09-14
Abstract

High-pressure neutron powder diffraction, muon-spin rotation, and magnetization studies of the structural, magnetic, and the superconducting properties of the Ce-underdoped superconducting (SC) electron-doped cuprate system with the Nd2CuO4 (the so-called T′) structure T′−Pr1.3−xLa0.7CexCuO4 with x=0.1 are reported. A strong reduction of the in-plane and out-of-plane lattice constants is observed under pressure. However, no indication of any pressure-induced phase transition from T′ to the K2NiF4 (the so-called T) structure is observed up to the maximum applied pressure of p = 11 GPa. Large and nonlinear increase of the short-range magnetic order temperature Tso in T′−Pr1.3−xLa0.7CexCuO4 (x=0.1) was observed under pressure. Simultaneous pressure causes a nonlinear decrease of the SC transition temperature Tc. All these experiments establish the short-range magnetic order as an intrinsic and competing phase in SC T′−Pr1.3-xLa0.7CexCuO4 (x=0.1). The observed pressure effects may be interpreted in terms of the improved nesting conditions through the reduction of the in-plane and out-of-plane lattice constants upon hydrostatic pressure.

Keywords
  • Impurities in superconductors
  • Magnetism
  • Cuprates
  • High-temperature superconductors
  • AC susceptibility measurements
  • DC susceptibility measurements
  • Muon spin relaxation & rotation
  • Pressure techniques
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GUGUCHIA, Z. et al. Pressure tuning of structure, superconductivity, and novel magnetic order in the Ce-underdoped electron-doped cuprate T ′−Pr1.3−x La0.7CexCuO4 ( x = 0.1 ). In: Physical review. B, 2017, vol. 96, n° 9, p. 094515. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.96.094515
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