NMR study of the Cd-doped CeCoIn$_{5}$ heavy-fermion superconductor

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Abstract

We have investigated the local environment of In and Co sites of the heavy fermion compound CeCo(In$_{1-x}$Cd$_{x}$)$_{5}$ ($x$ = 0.0, 0.10 and 0.15) using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance (NQR) measurements. Recently, it was found that Cd-doping acts as an electronic tuning agent in CeCoIn$_{5}$ and that superconductivity (SC) and antiferromagnetism (AFM) coexist at ambient-pressure for $0.05 < x < 0.15$. The NMR/NQR spectra of In and Co indicate the presence of electronic inhomogeneity, and the spin-lattice relaxation rate $1/T_{1}$ shows dramatic change in the spin dynamics only below $T \simeq 2T_{c}$.

Authors

  • R.R. Urbano

  • N.J. Curro

  • J.D. Thompson

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, 87545, U.S.A.
  • Ben-Li Young

    • Department of Electrophysics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan
  • Long D. Pham

    • University of California, Davis, CA 95616, U.S.A.
  • Z. Fisk

    • University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, U.S.A.