A muon coherent quantum resonance with I > 1/2 nuclei in A15 compounds

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The implanted muon can form a quantum-coherent resonant state when sandwiched between two I=1/2 fluorine ions, where I is the nuclear spin. This state has usually only been for I=1/2 nuclei which have no quadrupole moment. This proposal seeks to explore a newly-discovered analogous state in compounds with the A15 structure containing either V (I=7/2) and Nb (I=9/2) in order to understand the nature of the muon site in A15 compounds. Preliminary data on V3Si has yielded a promising hint of a quantum coherent state with I>1/2 nuclei. Knowledge of this state, in which quadrupolar coupling can play a role, may provide a new route through which muons could be used in the future to study charge density waves via the electric field gradient at I>1/2 nuclei.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.99691249
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/99691249
Provenance
Creator Professor Pietro Carretta; Professor Samuele Sanna; Dr Franz Lang; Dr Giacomo Prando; Dr Peter Baker; Professor Stephen Blundell
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2021
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2018-12-01T09:30:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-12-03T19:01:07Z