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Haga, Yoshinori; Aoki, Dai*; Homma, Yoshiya*; Matsuda, Tatsuma; Ikeda, Shugo*; Sakai, Hironori; Yamamoto, Etsuji; Nakamura, Akio; Shiokawa, Yoshinobu*; Onuki, Yoshichika
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 80(Suppl.A), p.SA109_1 - SA109_3, 2011/07
Times Cited Count:0 Percentile:0.00(Physics, Multidisciplinary)Tokunaga, Yo; Sakai, Hironori; Chudo, Hiroyuki; Kambe, Shinsaku; Yasuoka, Hiroshi; Suzuki, Hiroyuki*; Walstedt, R. E.*; Homma, Yoshiya*; Aoki, Dai*; Shiokawa, Yoshinobu*
Physical Review B, 82(10), p.104401_1 - 104401_6, 2010/09
Times Cited Count:5 Percentile:25.38(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)La NMR studies have been performed on PrPb
substituted with 3% La. The temperature dependence of the local magnetic susceptibility around La ions has been extracted from the
La Knight shift. These data show that the non-magnetic
crystalline-electric-field (CEF) ground state (GS) is preserved even at the nearest neighboring Pr ions, although their CEF level scheme is slightly modified due to the La substitution. On the other hand, the temperature dependence of the nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate
is found to be well reproduced by assuming the same CEF level scheme over a wide temperature range. However,
shows a strong upturn below 10 K, which is not expected from the non-magnetic CEF GS. We show that the low temperature anomaly can be quantitatively understood in terms of a cross-relaxation process between
Pr and
La nuclear spins.
Metoki, Naoto; Kaneko, Koji; Ikeda, Shugo*; Sakai, Hironori; Yamamoto, Etsuji; Haga, Yoshinori; Homma, Yoshiya*; Shiokawa, Yoshinobu*
IOP Conference Series; Materials Science and Engineering, 9, p.012088_1 - 012088_8, 2010/05
Times Cited Count:1 Percentile:53.77(Chemistry, Inorganic & Nuclear)Inelastic neutron scattering study has been carried out on US. A clear crystalline electric field (CEF) peak has been observed at 7.4 meV, which is consistent with the level scheme obtained from susceptibility data assuming 5f
configuration. The CEF becomes very weak and broad, and a quasi-elastic response emerges above the characteristic temperature
100 K. It indicates the crossover of the 5f character between localized and itinerant. A quasi-elastic response can be concluded as the hybridization effect of the 5f electrons with ligand p-electrons. Our study suggests that the crossover of the 5f character is the origin of the metal-insulator transition in US
.
Tokunaga, Yo; Osaka, Masahiko; Kambe, Shinsaku; Miwa, Shuhei; Sakai, Hironori; Chudo, Hiroyuki; Homma, Yoshiya*; Shiokawa, Yoshinobu*
Journal of Nuclear Materials, 396(1), p.107 - 111, 2010/01
Times Cited Count:3 Percentile:23.39(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)In order to investigate the magnetic properties of Am ions in the cubic fluorite structure, we have performed
O NMR measurements on (Pu
Am
)O
. We have observed a temperature dependent
O NMR line broadening induced by classical dipolar hyperfine fields from the Am 5
moments. From NMR line simulations, the effective moment of the Am moments has been estimated to be
. This value is comparable with
or
reported for AmO
. We have also carried out nuclear relaxation measurements for
O nuclei. The magnetization recovery has been found to exhibit a nonexponential time dependence with an exponent
. This result is well understood in terms of the nuclear relaxation mechanism induced by the Am 5
moment fluctuations via dipolar hyperfine fields.
Ikeda, Shugo*; Sakai, Hironori; Tateiwa, Naoyuki; Matsuda, Tatsuma; Aoki, Dai*; Homma, Yoshiya*; Yamamoto, Etsuji; Nakamura, Akio; Shiokawa, Yoshinobu*; Ota, Yuki*; et al.
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 78(11), p.114704_1 - 114704_10, 2009/11
Times Cited Count:14 Percentile:61.94(Physics, Multidisciplinary)Okane, Tetsuo; Okochi, Takuo*; Inami, Toshiya; Takeda, Yukiharu; Fujimori, Shinichi; Kawamura, Naomi*; Suzuki, Motohiro*; Tsutsui, Satoshi*; Yamagami, Hiroshi; Fujimori, Atsushi; et al.
Physical Review B, 80(10), p.104419_1 - 104419_7, 2009/09
Times Cited Count:6 Percentile:28.55(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)Kambe, Shinsaku; Sakai, Hironori; Tokunaga, Yo; Chudo, Hiroyuki; Yasuoka, Hiroshi; Matsuda, Tatsuma; Haga, Yoshinori; Ikeda, Shugo; Nakamura, Akio; Yamamoto, Etsuji; et al.
Journal of Nuclear Materials, 385(1), p.1 - 3, 2009/03
Times Cited Count:1 Percentile:10.08(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)In 5f-electron systems, exotic magnetism and unconventional superconductivity appear at low temperatures owing to strong electron correlations and orbital degeneracy. For example, we have investigated the unconventional superconducting states of recently synthesized NpPdAl
(
=5K) and PuRhGa
(
=9K) in terms of both macroscopic (staticsusceptibility, specific heat, resistivity) and microscopic (NMR) probes. The relation between magnetic fluctuations and unconventional superconductivity in f-electron systems is also discussed. Another exciting topic concerns the series AnO
(An; U, Np, Pu, Am). Besides the importance of AnO
as a nuclear fuel, the magnetic properties of these compounds at low temperatures are particularly interesting. On the basis of
O-NMR studies, multipolar ordered states have been identified in UO
(dipolar + quadrupolar ordering) and NpO
(quadrupolar + octupolar ordering), in contrast with the non-magnetic ground state of PuO
.
Tokunaga, Yo; Kambe, Shinsaku; Sakai, Hironori; Chudo, Hiroyuki; Matsuda, Tatsuma; Haga, Yoshinori; Yasuoka, Hiroshi; Aoki, Dai*; Homma, Yoshiya*; Shiokawa, Yoshinobu*; et al.
Physical Review B, 79(5), p.054420_1 - 054420_7, 2009/02
Times Cited Count:5 Percentile:24.83(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)P-NMR measurements have been performed on a single crystal of the neptunium-based filled skutterudite NpFe
P
. We have observed transferred hyperfine interactions at the P sites, which lead to an estimate of the local spin density in the P 3
orbitals. It is shown that a fraction of the Np 5
spin moments is transferred mostly into the P 3
orbitals extending toward the inside of a P-cage. The weak hybridization between Np 5
and P 3
orbitals suggests a localized character for Np 5
electrons. We have also measured the field and temperature dependences of the nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate (
). The
data reveal that the low-energy spin fluctuations of Np 5
spin moments are strongly suppressed by applied fields over a relatively wide temperature range. The present NMR results demonstrate that the negative magnetoresistance comes from a reduction of the magnetic scattering from Np 5
spin moments by an applied field.
Tokunaga, Yo; Suzuki, Hiroyuki*; Sakai, Hironori; Chudo, Hiroyuki; Kambe, Shinsaku; Yasuoka, Hiroshi; Homma, Yoshiya*; Aoki, Dai*; Shiokawa, Yoshinobu*
Journal of Physics; Conference Series, 150, p.042211_1 - 042211_4, 2009/00
Times Cited Count:2 Percentile:73.64(Thermodynamics)The first La-NMR measurement has been carried out on a La dilute system of PrPb
. We have succeeded to detect
La-NMR signal on a powder sample of Pr
La
Pb
and extracted the temperature dependence of the Knight shift
in a temperature range between 1.5 and 220 K.
has been found to maintain a linear relation with the bulk-susceptibility
in wide temperature range, except for a small deviation in the temperature region below 6 K. The slopes of the
vs
plots yield for the hyperfine coupling constants
the value 375 Oe/
. From the NMR results, we discuss the effect of the La substitutions on microscopic magnetic properties of PrPb
.
Haga, Yoshinori; Aoki, Dai*; Homma, Yoshiya*; Ikeda, Shugo; Matsuda, Tatsuma; Yamamoto, Etsuji; Sakai, Hironori; Tateiwa, Naoyuki; Dung, N. D.*; Nakamura, Akio; et al.
Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 464(1-2), p.47 - 50, 2008/09
Times Cited Count:19 Percentile:66.11(Chemistry, Physical)Chudo, Hiroyuki; Sakai, Hironori; Tokunaga, Yo; Kambe, Shinsaku; Aoki, Dai*; Homma, Yoshiya*; Shiokawa, Yoshinobu*; Haga, Yoshinori; Ikeda, Shugo*; Matsuda, Tatsuma; et al.
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 77(8), p.083702_1 - 083702_4, 2008/08
Times Cited Count:24 Percentile:97.11(Physics, Multidisciplinary)We present Al NMR studies for a single crystal of the newly developed superconductor NpPd
Al
(
K). In the superconducting state, the
Al NMR spectrum shifts to lower frequencies owing to a decrease of the spin part of the Knight shift, and exhibits broadening characteristic of the local field distribution associated with a vortex lattice. We have also found that the
Al nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate (
) decreases just below
with no coherence peak and shows
behavior at low temperatures. The observed temperature dependences of the Knight shift and
in general accord with those assuming a line-node superconducting gap with the gap value of
. Therefore, the present NMR data provides evidence for strong-coupling
-wave superconductivity in NpPd
Al
.
Tokunaga, Yo; Homma, Yoshiya*; Kambe, Shinsaku; Aoki, Dai*; Sakai, Hironori; Chudo, Hiroyuki; Ikushima, Kenji*; Yamamoto, Etsuji; Nakamura, Akio; Shiokawa, Yoshinobu*; et al.
Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials, 10(7), p.1663 - 1665, 2008/07
Multipolar degrees of freedom characteristic of -electrons bring rich and complex physics to rare-earth and actinide compounds. In the present work, we demonstrate that microscopic investigation of multipole order parameters is also possible by means of NMR through the hyperfine interactions. Our
O NMR study performed on a single crystal of NpO
provide definitive support for the proposed longitudinal triple-
type antiferro-octupolar ordering below
26 K. We shall also provide our
O NMR results on UO
and PuO
. The microscopic NMR clearly indicates the different nature of the magnetic ground states among three actinide dioxides.
Ikeda, Shugo; Sakai, Hironori; Matsuda, Tatsuma; Tateiwa, Naoyuki; Nakamura, Akio; Yamamoto, Etsuji; Aoki, Dai*; Homma, Yoshiya*; Shiokawa, Yoshinobu*; Hedo, Masato*; et al.
Physica B; Condensed Matter, 403(5-9), p.893 - 894, 2008/04
Times Cited Count:7 Percentile:32.87(Physics, Condensed Matter)Single crystals of paramagnetic semiconductor -US
with the orthorhombic (
) crystal structure were grown by chemical transport method. We measured the electrical resistivity
under high pressure, and magnetization. With increasing pressure, the temperature dependence of
approaches to semimetallic behavior and a kink anomaly appears at
.
shifts to higher temperature with increasing pressure. From the comparison with ferromagnetic semimetal UTeS having the same crystal structure, it seems that
is a ferromagnetic transition.
Jonen, Shintaro; Metoki, Naoto; Yamamoto, Etsuji; Homma, Yoshiya*; Aoki, Dai*; Shiokawa, Yoshinobu*; Onuki, Yoshichika
Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 448(1-2), p.84 - 88, 2008/01
Times Cited Count:1 Percentile:12.63(Chemistry, Physical)The magnetic structure of NpPtGa was investigated by neutron diffraction. NpPtGa
exhibits an A-type antiferromagnetic structure with propagation vector
= (0 0 1/2) below
= 26 K. The estimated Np magnetic moment is 0.38(5)
, and it is oriented parallel to the
100
direction. This small moment would be consistent with the large
= 123 mJ/(K
mol), indicative of the heavy fermion nature. The field-induced anomaly in the magnetic susceptibility is clarified to be a signature for an antiferromagnetic domain change between multi-domains to single-domain states.
Ikeda, Shugo*; Sakai, Hironori; Matsuda, Tatsuma; Tateiwa, Naoyuki; Aoki, Dai*; Homma, Yoshiya*; Nakamura, Akio; Yamamoto, Etsuji; Shiokawa, Yoshinobu*; Hedo, Masato*; et al.
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 77(Suppl.A), p.359 - 361, 2008/00
Times Cited Count:1 Percentile:11.48(Physics, Multidisciplinary)The ferromagnet UTeS was studied by measurement the resistivity under high pressure. The Curie temperature rapidly increases from 87 K to 166 Kat 8 GPa. The result suggests that there is a correlation between the electrical conductivity and magnetic transition temperature, implying the strong hybridization.
Tokunaga, Yo; Aoki, Dai*; Homma, Yoshiya*; Sakai, Hironori; Chudo, Hiroyuki; Kambe, Shinsaku; Matsuda, Tatsuma; Ikeda, Shugo; Yamamoto, Etsuji; Nakamura, Akio; et al.
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 77(Suppl.A), p.211 - 213, 2008/00
Times Cited Count:3 Percentile:27.15(Physics, Multidisciplinary)P-NMR measurements have been performed on a single crystal of NpFe
P
which is the first crystallized transuranium filled-skutterudite compound. The field-orientation dependence of the hyperfine interaction has been measured using the single crystal, and the results compared with those obtained previously in isostructural compounds UFe
P
and PrFe
P
. We have also measured the field and temperature dependence of the nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate in several fields between 1.8 and 8 T at temperatures between 4.2 and 300 K. The results are discussed on the basis of a localized picture for the 5f electrons.
Aoki, Dai*; Haga, Yoshinori; Matsuda, Tatsuma; Tateiwa, Naoyuki; Ikeda, Shugo*; Homma, Yoshiya*; Sakai, Hironori; Shiokawa, Yoshinobu*; Yamamoto, Etsuji; Nakamura, Akio; et al.
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 77(Suppl.A), p.159 - 164, 2008/00
Times Cited Count:3 Percentile:27.15(Physics, Multidisciplinary)Superconducting properties are investigated on the new neptunium-based superconductor NpPdAl
. The large electronic specific heat, anisotropy of magnetic as well as superconducting properties and strong paramagnetic effect implies spin-singlet pairing with anisotropic superconducting gap.
Sakai, Hironori; Kambe, Shinsaku; Tokunaga, Yo; Fujimoto, Tatsuya; Walstedt, R. E.*; Yasuoka, Hiroshi; Aoki, Dai*; Homma, Yoshiya*; Yamamoto, Etsuji; Nakamura, Akio; et al.
Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, 68(11), p.2103 - 2106, 2007/11
Times Cited Count:1 Percentile:7.33(Chemistry, Multidisciplinary)A lot of attention is currently focused on Pu-based superconductors. These systems have relatively high superconducting (SC) transition temperatures,
18 K for PuCoGa
and
9 K for PuRhGa
. Both compounds crystallize in the tetragonal HoCoGa
(115) structure, which is well known for the heavy-fermion SC systems Ce
In
(
=Co, Rh, Ir)with
2 K at most. Recently, NMR and NQR experiments have been reported for PuCoGa
by Curro et al. and for PuRhGa
by our group. In both cases, measurements of
using NQR have revealed that the Pu115 superconductors show unconventional superconductivity with an anisotropic gap. Now we have measured the more detailed data of
for NQR lines in PuRhGa
, especially focusing on the low-lying magnetic excitation in the normal state. From the viewpoint of spin-fluctuations, we will discuss the difference between PuRhGa
and PuCoGa
and between superconducting Pu115 and non-superconducting An115 series.
Tokunaga, Yo; Walstedt, R. E.*; Homma, Yoshiya*; Aoki, Dai*; Kambe, Shinsaku; Sakai, Hironori; Fujimoto, Tatsuya; Ikeda, Shugo; Yamamoto, Etsuji; Nakamura, Akio; et al.
Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, 68(11), p.2016 - 2019, 2007/11
Times Cited Count:2 Percentile:12.79(Chemistry, Multidisciplinary)In this paper, we report a comprehensive study of O nuclear spin-lattice relaxation in NpO
for a wide range of fields and temperatures. In both the paramagnetic and ordered-state regions, a strong, field-dependent
Np -
O nuclei cross-relaxation process is observed in addition to the expected background rate. The cross relaxation process, driven by the
Np spins, is conveyed to the
O via a greatly enhanced indirect nuclear spin-spin coupling which is described and reported here for the first time. The magnitude and temperature dependence of the indirect coupling are in reasonable accord with a simple theoretical model. The magnitude and temperature dependence of the
Np
process are also deduced from the data obtained.
Haga, Yoshinori; Aoki, Dai*; Yamagami, Hiroshi*; Matsuda, Tatsuma; Nakajima, Kunihisa; Arai, Yasuo; Yamamoto, Etsuji; Nakamura, Akio; Homma, Yoshiya*; Shiokawa, Yoshinobu*; et al.
Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 444-445, p.114 - 118, 2007/10
Times Cited Count:3 Percentile:27.47(Chemistry, Physical)We report the first dHvA study in plutonium compound PuIn with the cubic AuCu
type structure, which can be regarded as a reference compound of PuCoGa
. The result of the angular dependence of the dHvA frequency, which corresponds to the extremal cross section of the Fermi surface perpendicular to the field direction, was analyzed by the band calculations. The experimental data agree well with the theory, indicating that the 5f electrons can be treated as itinerant ones. The experimental dHvA study for plutonium-based superconductors such as PuCoGa
are also desired but more challenging because the superconducting mixed state extremely weaken the dHvA amplitude.