Nuclear quadrupole resonance and heavy-fermion superconductivity in
- 1 August 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 30 (3) , 1577-1579
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.30.1577
Abstract
nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) has been observed in the ternary compound which, when stoichiometric, is a heavy-fermion superconductor. In a superconducting specimen ( K) the observed temperature dependence of the spin-lattice relaxation rate is consistent with a conventional quasiparticle excitation spectrum below , with a pair-breaking parameter approximately half the value for suppression of superconductivity. Features in between and 1.2 K appear to signal a phase transition, possibly structural in nature. NQR data from a nonsuperconducting sample are consistent with extensive disorder in the Cu site occupation.
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