量子自旋液体候选材料的缪子自旋弛豫研究

量子自旋液体是一种新奇的磁性物态。由于极强的量子涨落,直至零温都不会出现长程序。量子自旋液体的基态不能用序参量描述,并且缺少对称性破缺,因此该物态的实现打破朗道理论的范式。对于量子自旋液体的研究有助于理解高温超导的机理,并且可以被应用在量子计算和量子信息中。目前,尽管理论上有了长足的发展,但仍旧没有任何一个材料被证实为量子自旋液体。因此,探测和确认一个真正的量子自旋液体材料是当前的研究重点。缪子自旋弛豫是一个对磁场极为敏感的实验技术,被广泛应用于量子自旋液体候选材料的研究中。该技术可以观测基态中是否存在磁有序,测量系统中的涨落频率,这两点都是表征量子自旋液体的重要性质。本文简要介绍了量子自旋液体态和缪子自旋弛豫技术,回顾了近期在不同体系的量子自旋液体候选材料中的实验结果,特别是缪子自旋弛豫的成果。这些体系包括一维反铁磁海森堡链（苯甲酸铜）,三角格子（YbMgGaO4,NaYbO2 和TbInO3）,笼目格[ZnCu3(OH)6Cl2 和 m3Sb3Zn2O14],蜂窝状格子（Na2IrO3 和 α-RuCl3）,以及烧绿石结构（Tb2Ti2O7,Pr2Ir2O7 和Ce2Zr2O7）。     

Muon Spin Rotation and Relaxation Experiments on Thin Films

The recent development at the Paul Scherrer Institute of a beam of low energy muons allows depth dependent muon spin rotation and relaxation investigations in thin samples, multilayers and near surface regions (low energy SR, LE-SR). After a brief overview of the LE-SR method, some representative experiments performed with this technique will be presented. The first direct determination of the field profile just below the surface of a high-temperature superconductor in the Meissner phase illustrates the power and sensitivity of low energy muons as near-surface probe and is an example of general application to depth profiling of magnetic fields. The evolution of the flux line lattice distribution across the surface of a YBa₂Cu₃O₇ film in the vortex phase has been investigated by implanting muons on both sides of a normal-superconducting boundary. A determination of the relaxation time and energy barrier to thermal activation in iron nanoclusters, embedded in a silver thin film matrix (500nm), demonstrates the use of slow muons to measure the properties of samples that cannot be made thick enough for the use of conventional SR. Other experiments investigated the magnetic properties of thin Cr(001) layers at thicknesses above and below the collapse of the spin density wave.     

Implementation of the Concept of Spin Polaron in Cuprate Superconductors within the Diagram Technique

JETP Letters - The modification of the spectral function of vector mesons in nuclear matter is predicted in many theoretical models. However, the existing experimental results for testing these...     

Dimensional Crossover of Magnetic Transition in Diluted Ising Spin Nets Probed by Muon Spin Relaxation

The magnetic ordering process of Ising spins on diluted square lattice was studied by muon spin relaxation using model compounds Rb₂Co _c Mg_1−c F₄. Muon relaxation shows an anomaly at a remarkably higher temperature T _N ^μSR than the transition temperature determined by neutron Bragg scattering T _N ^ND near the percolation threshold for square lattice (c _p=0.593). The difference between the two temperatures amounts to 50% of T _N ^ND just above c _p. The field cooling effect of DC magnetic susceptibility is appreciable below T _N ^ND while the temperature of the anomaly in AC susceptibility approaches to T _N ^μSR as the frequency is increased. It was concluded that there is a crossover from two-dimensional ordering at T _N ^μSR to three-dimensional ordering at T _N ^ND but the two-dimensional order between T _N ^μSR and T _N ^ND has slow fluctuations due to the fractal structure with a plenty of weak links. This revised version was published online in September 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Theoretical Study of Trapping Sites for Muon in the Heme Group of Cytochrome c and Associated Shifts in Muon Spin Relaxation Frequencies

Muon Spin Relaxation (μSR) experiments are currently being conducted on the important electron transfer molecule cytochrome c (cyt c) with the goal to find out about microscopic details of the path the moving electron is taking. Simultaneously we are using the Unrestricted Hartree–Fock Cluster Procedure to determine the trapping sites for muon (μ⁺) and muonium (Mu) in the heme unit of cyt c and the associated hyperfine interactions. For the trapping sites with the highest binding energies for μ⁺, namely the nitrogen and the carbon of the pyrrole rings, we have used the available magnetic susceptibility data together with our calculated hyperfine fields to predict the Knight-shifts. At room-temperature we found 88.4 ppm and 79.0 ppm for the most attractive N- and adjacent C-site, respectively. At 150 K, these shifts increase to 172.7 ppm for the N-site and 153.7 ppm for the C-site. This revised version was published online in September 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Modern Approach to Optical Absorption in Cuprate Superconductors

Adopting the many body quantum dynamical theory of phonon Green’s functions via a general Hamiltonian which includes the effects of electron-phonon interactions, anharmonicities and impurities (but not those of BCS terms) the theory of infrared (i.r.) absorption has been investigated which separates out into (i) diagonal and (ii) non-diagonal contributions. The non-diagonal contribution emerges only in the impure crystals and becomes extinct in pure crystals. The critical investigations divulges that the infrared (i.r.) absorption coefficients not only depends upon electron-phonon coupling coefficient but also on temperature, which appears as the unique feature of the present theory and provide us a plat form to study a system in superconducting and normal regions. The Y B a ₂ C u ₃ O _7−δ superconductor has been taken for the purpose of analysis and comparison with the well-established experimental results.

     

A Phenomenological Study of Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectra for High-Tc Superconductors

Using a phenomenological model for the normal state of high-T_c superconductors, we have analyzed the angle-resolved photoemission spectra, and compared our results with the MFL theory and other microscopic models as well as with the experiments. In contrast to the MFL theory we predict that there exists a narrow lower energy region near the Fermi surface showing the conventional Fermi liquid behavior, which needs to be approved by fine experiments in future.     

重整化平均场理论及其在铜氧化物高温超导材料中的应用

对铜氧化物高温超导体的研究是凝聚态物理中最重要的问题之一.理论研究上的困难在于铜氧化物高温超导材料中单占据条件所导致的强关联效应.铜氧化物高温超导材料可以用t-J模型进行描述,而上述的单占据条件则体现于t-J模型中的Gutzwiller投影算符.重整化平均场理论(RMFT)是一种处理这类由Gutzwiller投影算符所导致的强关联效应比较有效的方法.本文首先对铜氧化物高温超导材料进行简单的介绍.然后我们将重点介绍Gutzwiller近似.最后我们会介绍重整化平均场理论,以及其在铜氧化物高温超导材料和其他一些强关联材料中的应用.     

An Extended Model for Coexistence of Superconductivity and Paramagnetism in High-Tc Superconductors

In the present work, the total magnetization in superconducting state is separated into critical state and paramagnetic components in terms of an H（x）-dependent magnetic flux density. Utilizing this model, we reproduce successfully M-H curves measured by Sandu et al. [Phys. Rev. B 74 （2006） 184511] and Sandu et al. [J. Supercond. Incorp. Novel Magn. 17 （2004） 701] for different forms of Jc.     

Muon Spin Dynamics and Sites in GdNi5

In GdNi₅, the muon localizes at the 3f interstitial site and below 80K a second muon site becomes populated, the so-called 6_ring site. This ring site is metastable and the muon hops to the 3f site. We determine the mean time of stay of the muon in the ring site and show that it is governed by a multi-phonon quantum diffusion process. The coincidence energy is measured to be E _a =272(10)K and the tunneling matrix element J=0.11(2)meV.     

Proton Relaxation and Spin Label Studies of Papaverine Localization in Ionic Micelles

The localization of papaverine (PAV) in micelles of zwitterionic N-hexadecyl-N,N-dimethyl-3-ammonio-1-propanesulfonate (HPS), cationic cetyltrimethylammonium chloride (CTAC), and anionic sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) in D₂O was studied by ¹H NMR and ESR in the presence and absence of 5-doxyl- or 12-doxyl-stearic acid. PAV, surfactants, and spin probes are characterized by restricted anisotropic motion in micelles. The rotational correlation time of doxyl fragment was in the range of 0.2 to 0.5 nanoseconds. Binding of PAV to micelles decreases the mobility of both probes, suggesting the localization of PAV inside the hydrophobic part of micelles near the micelle-water interface. According to the NOE data, the methoxy groups of PAV are located in the vicinity of the nitrogen atom in CTAC and HPS micelles, the methoxy groups of the PAV heterocycle being immersed slightly deeper inside the micelle. The T₁ relaxation enhancements by two different spin probes show that the H5 and methoxy substituents of the PAV heterocycle are in close proximity to the α-CH₂ of acyl chains in all types of micelles, whereas H3 and H12 are the most distant from the α-CH₂. No significant differences were found for the protonated and neutral PAV in SDS micelles at pD 4.9 and 11.2. These data show that the geometry of the PAV-micelle complex is practically independent of the PAV charge and surfactant headgroup.     

手征对称性动力学破缺和铜氧化物超导体相变的三维量子电动力学研究

利用三维量子电动力学理论中的Dyson-Schwinger方程方法, 研究了零温情况下平面铜氧化合物超导体的反铁磁相和d波超导相之间的相变. 通过在朗道规范下近似解析求解和数值求解完全耦合的Dyson-Schwinger方程、并将所得结果与1/N展开方法的结果相比较, 发现在半填充准费密子味道数约小于等于4的情况下, 通过手征对称性自发破缺, d波超导相可以演化到反铁磁相, 并且反铁磁相有可能与d波超导相共存. 通过进一步比较不同相的压强, 还说明反铁磁与d波超导共存相为稳定相, 从而反铁磁相确实可以与d波超导相共存.