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TT: Fachverband Tiefe Temperaturen
TT 27: Superconductivity: Cuprate Superconductors
TT 27.3: Talk
Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 12:00–12:15, H 2053
High Pressure Changes of the 17O NMR Spin Shift Pseudo-Gap of YBa2Cu4O8 — •Thomas Meissner1, Swee K. Goh2, Jürgen Haase1, Grant V. M. Williams3, and Peter B. Littlewood2,4 — 1Faculty of Physics and Earth Science, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany — 2Department of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom — 3The MacDiarmid Institute and Industrial Research Limited, Wellington, New Zealand — 4Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, USA
The influence of high pressure up to 63 kbar on the electronic properties of the high-temperature superconductor YBa2Cu4O8 above the superconducting transition temperature Tc was measured with an NMR anvil cell design [1]. An increase of the spin shift at all temperatures is observed and the pseudogap feature almost vanishes at 63 kbar. We show that this change of the temperature-dependent spin susceptibility can be explained by a pressure-induced decrease of a temperature-dependent component, and an increase of a temperature-independent component. The results are compared to doping effects.
[1] T. Meissner, S. K. Goh, J. Haase, G. V. M. Williams, and P. B. Littlewood, Phys. Rev. B 83, 220517(R) (2011)