Direct Search for a Ferromagnetic Phase in a Heavily Overdoped Nonsuperconducting Copper Oxide

Details Direct Search for a Ferromagnetic Phase in a Heavily Overdoped Nonsuperconducting Copper Oxide Direct Search for a Ferromagnetic Phase in a Heavily Overdoped Nonsuperconducting Copper Oxide

2009-11-02

arxiv.org/abs/0911.0407v3

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 107, 17131-17134 (2010)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

13 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

The doping of charge carriers into the CuO2 planes of copper oxide Mott insulators causes a gradual destruction of antiferromagnetism and the emergence of high-temperature superconductivity. Optimal superconductivity is achieved at a doping concentration p beyond which further increases in doping cause a weakening and eventual disappearance of superconductivity. A potential explanation for this demise is that ferromagnetic fluctuations compete with superconductivity in the overdoped regime. In this case a ferromagnetic phase at very low temperatures is predicted to exist beyond the doping concentration at which superconductivity disappears. Here we report on a direct examination of this scenario in overdoped La2-xSrxCuO4 using the technique of muon spin relaxation. We detect the onset of static magnetic moments of electronic origin at low temperature in the heavily overdoped nonsuperconducting region. However, the magnetism does not exist in a commensurate long-range ordered state. Instead it appears as a dilute concentration of static magnetic moments. This finding places severe restrictions on the form of ferromagnetism that may exist in the overdoped regime. Although an extrinsic impurity cannot be absolutely ruled out as the source of the magnetism that does occur, the results presented here lend support to electronic band calculations that predict the occurrence of weak localized ferromagnetism at high doping.

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