Oxygen Isotope Effect of the Plane-Copper NQR Frequency in YBa_2Cu_4O_8

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2001-12-12

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0112212v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

6 pages including 1 table, 3 eps-figures (revtex4)

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.65.184518

We report on high-precision measurements of the temperature dependence of the plane-^63Cu NQR line frequency nu_Q(Cu2) and the linewidth in normal and superconducting ^16O and ^18O exchanged YBa_2Cu_4O_8. Whereas nu_Q(Cu2) passes T_c very smoothly without a discontinuity either in value nor in slope, the linewidth increases in the normal conducting phase down to T_c and starts to decrease sharply in the superconducting phase to finally resume its high-temperature value of the normal phase. There is a well discernible oxygen isotope effect on the nu_Q(Cu2) temperature dependencies. The temperature dependence of nu_Q(Cu2) is described by an empirical expression consisting of two parts: one related to the thermal expansion of the lattice and the other due to charge redistribution during the formation of new electronic structures in the CuO_2 planes. From the fit to the experimental data we determine for the conjectured formation of new electronic structures an energy scale Delta(^16O) = 188.0(1.6) K and Delta(^18O) = 180.0(1.6) K. This results in a partial oxygen isotope effect coefficient of 0.42(11) which is larger than both the spin-pseudogap coefficient [0.061(8)] and the T_c coefficient [0.056(12)].

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