Coexisting static magnetic order and superconductivity in CeCu2Si2 found by nuclear quadrupole resonance
Creators
- 1. Department of Physics, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Republic of China (TW)
Description
63Cu nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) has been observed in a heavy-fermion system CeCu2Si2. In the superconducting CeCu2Si2 specimens (Tc congruent 0.6 K), NQR experiments have revealed an onset of a phase transition below ∼1 K. Zero- and longitudinal-field muon-spin-relaxation measurements suggest a static magnetic ordering below ∼0.8 K, either in the spin-glass or in incommensurate spin-density-wave states. The exotic transition observed in NQR measurements should be closely related to the static magnetic ordering in muon-spin-relaxation measurements. NQR data from a nonsuperconducting CeCu2Si2 sample are consistent with extensive disorder in Cu site occupation. Therefore, the spin-density wave may be depressed in the nonsuperconducting CeCu2Si2. The superconducting transition temperature Tc can be enhanced by the presence of spin-density waves such that, if the spin-density wave is depressed, CeCu2Si2 will lose its superconducting properties
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review, B: Condensed Matter
- Journal Volume
- 43
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Series
- Phys. Rev., B: Condens. Matter.
- Journal Page Range
- 83-90
- ISSN
- 0163-1829
- CODEN
- PRBMD
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 22042796
- Subject category
- S36: MATERIALS SCIENCE;
- Descriptors DEI
- CERIUM SILICIDES; COPPER SILICIDES; COPPER 63; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; MUON SPIN RELAXATION; NUCLEAR QUADRUPOLE RESONANCE; SPIN GLASS STATE; SPIN WAVES; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; ULTRALOW TEMPERATURE
- Descriptors DEC
- CERIUM COMPOUNDS; COPPER COMPOUNDS; COPPER ISOTOPES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES; INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI; ISOTOPES; NUCLEI; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; RARE EARTH COMPOUNDS; RELAXATION; RESONANCE; SILICIDES; SILICON COMPOUNDS; STABLE ISOTOPES; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; TRANSITION ELEMENT COMPOUNDS