Phase Separation and Finite Size Scaling inLa2xSrxCuO4+δ[0⩽(x,γ)⩽0.03]

Abstract
A study of the phase diagram and magnetic susceptibility χ(x,δ,T) of the title system is reported. For δ≃0.03, macroscopic phase separation, below ≃300 K into superconductingLa2x Srx CuO4+δ(δ≃0.08) and nonsuperconductingLa2x Srx CuO4+δ(δ″≃0.00) phases, known to occur forx=0, disappears by x≃0.03. The behaviors of the Néel temperature TN(x) and χ(x,T) of the antiferromagnetic phase (0≃x≲0.02,δ″≃0.00) reveal a novel microscopic segregation of the doped holes in this phase into walls of hole-rich material separating undoped domains. © 1993 The American Physical Society