ISSN:
1089-7550
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
Notes:
The heavy fermion compound Ce7Ni3 is an antiferromagnet with TN∼1.7 K. According to the high pressure experiment, this compound has undergone a transition to a non-Fermi liquid state at ∼0.32 GPa and has recovered a Fermi liquid state at ∼0.62 GPa again. Before the high pressure nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) study through two transitions, we have performed NMR experiments of 61Ni, 59Co and 63Cu in order to clarify the electronic states at ambient pressure. Two kinds of partially overlapping Ni NMR spectra were observed in Ce7Ni3 containing an enriched 61Ni. This result may be ascribed to two intrinsic local fields presumably due to the lattice distortion, etc. All the relaxation rates studied here are proportional to temperature above 1.4 K in the paramagnetic state, which indicates that the systems are in the Fermi liquid state at ambient pressure. The increase of (1/T1T) with increasing Co concentration, CCo, tells us that the partial density of states on Ni-3d states at Fermi level, N(EF)Ni, increase with CCo. On the contrary, CCu-independent (1/T1T) values indicate N(EF)Ni keep almost constant with Cu doping. © 2000 American Institute of Physics.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.373273
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