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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of the High-Temperature Superconductors in the Normal and Superconducting States

Abstract

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Nuclear Magnetic Resonance reveals important information about the correlated electronic system in the high temperature superconductors. In the normal state of YBa2Cu4O8 we find two characteristic temperatures at 215K and 500K describing crossovers between different scaling regimes of the antiferromagnetic correlation length. In the superconducting mixed state of YBa2Cu3O7-delta we find evidence for an unconventional field dependence of the density of states at the Fermi level. This field dependence agrees with a recent prediction by Volovik that a superconductor with nodal lines in the superconducting gap can have quasiparticle excitations outside the vortex cores associated with the Doppler shift of the Cooper pairs involved in the screening supercurrent.

Degree

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Name thesis:degree_name
Ph.D.
Level thesis:degree_level
Dissertation
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Physics
Grantor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Year dc:date
2015

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Curro, Nicholas James
Contributors dc:contributor
  • Charles P. Slichter

Subjects

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Rights

Language dc:language
eng

Identifiers

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Identifier
(MiAaPQ)AAI9912215
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/80659

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Last updated
2026-07-22
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citation

Curro, Nicholas James. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of the High-Temperature Superconductors in the Normal and Superconducting States. Dissertation thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/80659