ISSN:
1572-9540
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Physics
Notes:
Abstract We report on ZF and TF‐studies of PrCu2 above the induced Jahn–Teller transition at 7.3 K. Generally a two‐component signal is found, one showing inhomogeneous the other one homogeneous, temperature dependent line broadening. In ZF the former component is well represented by a Gaussian Kubo–Toyabe function with \varDelta \simeq 6.5\,μs-1 at 7.5 K, corresponding to a field width of 76 G. This is about 30 times larger than what is calculated to arise from the 141Pr‐nuclear dipole moments alone, pointing to strong hyperfine enhanced features. TF‐field scans at 12 K revealed that the enhancement is suppressed in external fields exceeding 1 kG. In parallel the Knight shift drops from very large values well above 10% at 100 G to shifts of the order of 1% above 1 kG. A scaling of the Knight shifts with the corresponding relaxation rates seems to imply that the strange field dependence below 1 kG is associated with the magnetic susceptibility of the muons’s nearest neighbour Pr3+‐ions, a result for which we have no explanation yet to offer.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1012659306140
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