Observation ofNMR and NQR signals in the heavy-fermion superconductor
- 1 June 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 55 (22) , 15223-15227
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.55.15223
Abstract
NMR and NQR measurements have been performed both in the normal and in the superconducting states for the heavy-fermion superconductor . The magnitude of the internal field at Pd is found to be about 3 kOe (at 4.2 K) in the antiferromagnetically (AF) ordered state. The nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate, 1/, in is nearly temperature, T, independent in the paramagnetic state up to 60 K, successively diverges at Néel temperature associated with the critical slowing down of U magnetic moments, and then decreases markedly in the AF ordered state, which is well explained by a localized moment picture. These results have shown that Pd atoms are nonmagnetic, in which 4d electrons couple very weakly to U moments. In the superconducting state, 1/ decreases in proportion to down to 0.5 K with no coherence peak just below , which indicates the occurrence of anisotropic superconductivity having line nodes in the superconducting energy gap. The coexistence of the AF ordering and the anisotropic superconductivity in could unambiguously be confirmed.
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