EFFECTS OF SUBSTITUTION OF ZN FOR CU IN THE SPIN-PEIERLS CUPRATE, CUGEO3 - THE SUPPRESSION OF THE SPIN-PEIERLS TRANSITION AND THE OCCURRENCE OF A NEW SPIN-GLASS STATE

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作者
HASE, M [1 ]
TERASAKI, I [1 ]
SASAGO, Y [1 ]
UCHINOKURA, K [1 ]
OBARA, H [1 ]
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[1] ELECTROTECH LAB,TSUKUBA,IBARAKI 305,JAPAN
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.71.4059
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O4 [物理学];
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The magnetic susceptibilities of polycrystalline Cu1-xZnxGeO3 were measured to study the effects of nonmagnetic impurities on the spin-Peierls transition. The transition temperature drastically reduces upon Zn doping and the spin-Peierls state collapses around x = 0.03. The Zn doping causes another phase transition in the samples with 0.02 less-than-or-equal-to x less-than-or-equal-to 0.08, which proved to be spin-glass-like. The present Letter provides the first study of the spin-Peierls system with impurities.
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