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PHYSICAL REVIEW B 70, 212507 2004 Effect of impurity resonance states on the NMR spectra of high-Tc cuprates J. Chang,1 Y. H. Su,2 H. G. Luo,1 H. T. Lu,1,3 and T. Xiang1,2 1 Institute of Theoretical Physics and Interdisciplinary Center of Theoretic Studies, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 2735, Beijing 100080, China 2Center for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China 3Department of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100084, China Received 27 May 2004; published 21 December 2004 A strong nonmagnetic impurity can induce a resonance state in the d-wave superconducting state. As far as magnetic properties are concerned, this resonance state behaves effectively like a free moment. It leads to a Curie-Weiss-like magnetic susceptibility in an intermediate temperature regime below Tc . From the impurity susceptibility, the effective moment of the resonance state is deduced and compared with experiments. The contribution of the resonance to the magnetic susceptibility can account for the main feature of the NMR spectra in overdoped high-Tc materials. In the underdoped regime, the contribution from the resonance to the magnetic susceptibility is also substantial, but the effective moment of the resonance is smaller than the total moment induced by a nonmagnetic impurity. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.70.212507 PACS numbers: 74.25.Jb, 76.60.k The substitution of impurities into cuprates has ser