Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2005-08-03
Physical Review B 72, 214407 (2005)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
11 pages, 9 figures; section 3 revised
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.72.214407
Na0.5CoO2 exhibits a metal-insulator transition at 53 K upon cooling. The nature of another transition at 88 K has not been fully clarified yet. We report the results of measurements of the electrical conductivity, the magnetic susceptibility and 23Na NMR on a powder sample of Na0.5CoO2, including the mapping of NMR spectra, as well as probing the spin-lattice relaxation rate and the spin-spin relaxation rate, in the temperature range between 30 K and 305 K. The NMR data reflect the transition at T_X very well but provide less evidence for the metal-insulator transition at T_MI. The temperature evolution of the shape of the spectra implies the formation of a staggered internal field below T_X, not accompained by a rearrangement of the electric charge distribution. Our results thus indicate that in Na0.5CoO2, an unusual type of magnetic ordering in the metallic phase precedes the onset of charge ordering, which finally induces an insulating ground state.
Felder E.
Gavilano Jorge L.
Hinderer Jacques
Karpinski Janusz
Kazakov Sergey M.
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