Exotic superconducting phase inclose to antiferromagnetism: A Cu-NQR study under hydrostatic pressure
- 12 March 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 63 (14) , 140501
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.63.140501
Abstract
We report Cu nuclear-quadrupole-resonance results under pressure (P) on a homogeneous K) that revealed critical magnetic fluctuations at the border to an antiferromagnetic (AF) phase. This exotic superconducting (SC) phase evolves into the typical heavy-fermion SC phase at minute pressures exceeding GPa. The nuclear spin-lattice relaxation data in a P range 0.85 – 2.58 GPa are shown to be accountable by the spin-fluctuation theory based on the nearly AF Fermi-liquid model. In GPa, by contrast, we conclude that the exotic SC phase manifests itself under the unconventional normal state where AF waves propagate over a long range without any trace of AF order and thereby the heavy-fermion state breaks up.
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