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Jul, 2011

Electric field gradient fluctuations in filled skutterudite ReRu 4Sb12 (Re = La, Ce and Pr) probed by Sb-NQR

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan
  • Mamoru Yogi
  • ,
  • Haruo Niki
  • ,
  • Hitoshi Sugawara
  • ,
  • Naoya Takeda
  • ,
  • Hideyuki Sato

Volume
80
Number
First page
SA027-1
Last page
SA027-3
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (international conference proceedings)
DOI
10.1143/JPSJS.80SA.SA027

We have carried out 121,123Sb nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) measurements on ReRu4Sb12 (Re = La, Ce and Pr) to investigate an anomalous behavior of the nuclear spin-echo relaxation rate 1/T2 observed in ReOs4Sb12. The full width at half maximum of the NQR spectrum shows a step-like increase below 130 K with decreasing temperature. Temperature dependence of 1/T2 also shows a divergence at ∼115 K whereas the nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate 1/T1 does not show any anomaly. These results are caused by a distribution of the electric field gradient (EFG) and its fluctuations, which might arise from a rattling motion of the rare earth ion centered in the cage which consists of twelve Sb and/or a small deformation of the cage. The EFG fluctuations observed in ReOs4Sb12 and ReRu 4Sb12 at T ∼ 120 K originates from an unique crystal structure of the filled skutterudite with oversized Sb-cage. © 2011 The Physical Society of Japan.

Link information
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1143/JPSJS.80SA.SA027
ID information
  • DOI : 10.1143/JPSJS.80SA.SA027
  • ISSN : 0031-9015
  • ISSN : 1347-4073
  • SCOPUS ID : 80052415206

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