Nuclear quadrupole resonance and nuclear magnetic resonance of copper in the high-Tc superconductor YBa2Cu3O7

The /sup 65/Cu and /sup 63/Cu zero-field nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) at 4.7 and 8.5 T and the spin-lattice relaxation time T/sub 1/ at 8.5 T are measured in the superconducting oxide YBa/sub 2/Cu/sub 3/O/sub 7-//sub delta/ between 80 and 300 K. No sign of magnetic order or localized moments are found. The NQR linewidth is strongly dependent on the oxygen content. We assign the /sup 63/Cu NQR line at 22 MHz to the Cu site with oxygen coordination 5. T/sub 1/ is dominated by the quadrupolar relaxation due to spin-phonon coupling.