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Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 2791–2794 (1998)

Suppression of Antiferromagnetic Order by Light Hole Doping in La2Cu1-xLixO4: A 139La NQR Study

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B. J. Suh1, P. C. Hammel1, Y. Yoshinari1, J. D. Thompson1, J. L. Sarrao1, and Z. Fisk2
1Condensed Matter and Thermal Physics, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545
2National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306

Received 22 October 1997; published in the issue dated 28 September 1998

139La nuclear quadrupole resonance measurements in lightly doped La2Cu1-xLixO4 have been performed to reveal the dependence of the magnetic properties of the antiferromagnetic CuO2 planes on the character of the doped holes and their interactions with the dopant. A detailed study shows that the magnetic properties are remarkably insensitive to the character of the dopant impurity. This indicates that the added holes form previously unrecognized collective structures.

© 1998 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.2791
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.2791
PACS:
75.30.Kz, 74.72.Dn, 76.60.Gv, 76.60.Jx