Intrinsic low-temperature magnetic properties on ultraclean UTe with = 2.1 K revealed by Te NMR

Matsumura, Hiroki*; Tokunaga, Yo  ; Sakai, Hironori   ; Kambe, Shinsaku  ; 13 of others*

To investigate the intrinsic magnetic properties of UTe, we performed Te-NMR measurements on the ultra-clean single-crystalline UTe with superconducting transition temperature = 2.1 K and compared the results with those of the = 1.6 K sample. The broadening of the linewidth of the NMR spectrum in the a-axis magnetic field and the low-temperature magnetic fluctuations observed in the 1.6 K sample are suppressed in the ultra-clean sample, indicating that such magnetic properties originate from a tiny amount of U deficiency. The present results suggest that the magnetic properties in UTe are sensitive to the U deficiency. We also observed a peculiar angular dependence of the NMR quantities due to large magnetic anisotropy with the a-axis as the magnetic easy axis.