Km. Kojima et al., ANTIFERROMAGNETIC ORDER WITH SPATIALLY INHOMOGENEOUS ORDERED MOMENT SIZE OF ZN-DOPED AND SI-DOPED CUGEO3, Physical review letters, 79(3), 1997, pp. 503-506
We report muon spin relaxation measurements of the doped spin-Peierls
system (Cu1-xZnx)- (Ge1-ySiy)O-3. Spontaneous muon spin precession in
zero applied field was observed, confirming the presence of antiferrom
agnetic order in this series of compounds. In contrast to usual antife
rromagnets, muon spin precession is accompanied by a relaxation signal
indicating a large spatial inhomogeneity of the ordered moment size.
Assuming an exponential decay of the moment size away from the doping
centers, we estimated a decay length of xi similar to 10 lattice units
along the chain. We suggest that both Zn and Si doping induces the sa
me maximum moment size around the doping center.