ABRUPT BUT CONTINUOUS ANTIFERROMAGNETIC TRANSITION IN NEARLY STOICHIOMETRIC LA2CUO4+DELTA

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MACLAUGHLIN, DE
VITHAYATHIL, JP
BROM, HB
DEROOY, JCJM
HAMMEL, PC
CANFIELD, PC
REYES, AP
FISK, Z
THOMPSON, JD
CHEONG, SW
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[1] LEIDEN UNIV,KAMERLINGH ONNES LAB,2300 RA LEIDEN,NETHERLANDS
[2] LOS ALAMOS NATL LAB,LOS ALAMOS,NM 87545
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.72.760
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O4 [物理学];
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Zero-field La-139 nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) has been used to characterize the antiferromagnetic transition in nearly stoichiometric single crystals of La2CuO4+6 (Neel temperatures T(N) between 275 and 318 K). The onset of the NQR Zeeman splitting at T(N) is abrupt but continuous, indicative of a second-order phase transition with either a crossover in critical behavior just below T(N) or a very small critical exponent beta less than or similar to 0.1. The absence of any anomaly at T(N) in the La-139 electric field gradient indicates no accompanying structural distortion.
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