Published April 30, 2005 | Version v1
Journal article

μSR study on filled skutterudite PrRu4P12

  • 1. Muon Science Laboratory, Institute of Material Structure Science, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801 (Japan)
  • 2. Department of Physics, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Minami-Ohsawa 1-1, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-0397 (Japan)

Description

Muon spin relaxation (μSR) experiments have been carried out down to 20mK in the filled skutterudite PrRu4P12 that exhibits a metal-insulator transition around TMI=60K. No precession in the μSR data at zero external magnetic field (ZF) suggests no magnetic order down to 20mK. The ZF relaxation rate of the μ+ spin polarization shows no sizable change across TMI within the experimental accuracy. However, it increases below 30K monotonically with decreasing temperature. Indications have been found on the existence of dynamically fluctuating internal fields, presumably associated with the 4f electron dynamics

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physb.2005.01.249;
PII
S0921-4526(05)00271-1;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physica. B, Condensed Matter
Journal Volume
359-361
Journal Page Range
p. 850-852
ISSN
0921-4526
CODEN
PHYBE3

Conference

Title
International conference on strongly correlated electron systems
Acronym
SCES '04
Dates
26-30 Jul 2004
Place
Karlsruhe (Germany)

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Copyright
Copyright (c) 2005 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.