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Phys Rev Lett. 2001 Dec 03;87(23):237201. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.237201. Epub 2001 Nov 15.

First time determination of the microscopic structure of a stripe phase: low temperature NMR in La(2)NiO(4.17).

Physical review letters

I M Abu-Shiekah, O Bakharev, H B Brom, J Zaanen

Affiliations

  1. Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9504, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands.

PMID: 11736473 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.237201

Abstract

The experimental observations of stripes in superconducting cuprates and insulating nickelates clearly show the modulation in charge and spin density. However, these have proven to be rather insensitive to the harmonic structure and (site or bond) ordering. Using (139)La NMR in La(2)NiO(4+delta) with delta = 0.17, we show that in the 1/3 hole doped nickelate below the freezing temperature the stripes are strongly solitonic and site ordered with Ni(3+) ions carrying S = 1/2 in the domain walls and Ni(2+) ions with S = 1 in the domains.

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