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Phys. Rev. B 56, 877–885 (1997)

High-temperature 63Cu(2) nuclear quadrupole and magnetic resonance measurements of YBa2Cu4O8

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N. J. Curro
Department of Physics and Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1110 West Green Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801-3080

T. Imai
Department of Physics, #13-3149, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

C. P. Slichter
Department of Physics and Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1110 West Green Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801-3080

B. Dabrowski
Department of Physics, Northern Illinois University, De Kalb, Illinois 60115

Received 15 August 1996; revised 6 March 1997; published in the issue dated 1 July 1997

We report data on the Gaussian transverse relaxation rate 1/T2G, the Knight shift Ks, and the spin-lattice relaxation time T1, in YBa2Cu4O8 from 100 K up to 715 K, extending the upper temperature of previous studies by 200 K. The T2G data are corrected for a small spin-lattice fluctuation contribution to the echo decay. Calculations of T1T/T2G and T1T/T2G2 show that there is a crossover in scaling behavior at a temperature Tcr∼500 K. The Knight-shift data also exhibit a maximum at this temperature and decrease slowly with increasing temperature above this. Calculations using an independent form for the susceptibility due to Sokol, Singh, and Elstner suggest that the correlation length for antiferromagnetic fluctuations is on the order of one to two lattice spacings at this crossover temperature, in agreement with the proposal of Barzykin and Pines.

© 1997 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.56.877
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevB.56.877
PACS:
74.25.Ha, 74.72.Bk, 76.60.Es, 76.60.Gv
 
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