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A magnetic analog of the isotope effect in cuprates

Rinat Ofer, Galina Bazalitsky, Amit Kanigel, Amit Keren, Assa Auerbach, James S. Lord, Alex Amato

cond-mat.supr-conarXiv:cond-mat/0606695

Abstract

We present extensive magnetic measurements of the (CaxLa1-x)(Ba1.75-xLa0.25+x)Cu3Oy (CLBLCO) system with its four different families (x) having a Tcmax(x) variation of 28% and minimal structural changes. For each family we measured the Neel temperature, the anisotropies of the magnetic interactions, and the spin glass temperature. Our results exhibit a universal relation Tc=c*J*ns for all families, where c~1, J is the in plane Heisenberg exchange, and ns is the carrier density. This relates cuprate superconductivity to magnetism in the same sense that phonon mediated superconductivity is related to atomic mass.

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