Abstract
We report 13C NMR characterization of the new superconductor MgCNi3 [T. He et al., Nature (London) 411, 54 (2001)]. We found that both the uniform spin susceptibility and the spin fluctuations show a strong enhancement with decreasing temperature, and saturate below ∼50K and ∼20K, respectively. The nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate 1/13T1 exhibits typical behavior for isotropic s-wave superconductivity with a coherence peak below Tc =7.0K that grows with decreasing magnetic field.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 257601-1-257601-4 |
| Journal | Physical review letters |
| Volume | 87 |
| Issue number | 25 |
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| State | Published - Dec 17 2001 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Physics and Astronomy