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Sakai, Hironori
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Quantum criticalities tuned by pressure, external field, and chemical substitutions mark an important link in the heavy fermion superconductors. Systematic NMR investigations have suggested that -type antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations are favorable for -wave superconductivity in 115 compounds. Recently, anisotropy of antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations is now being microscopically examined in several other tetragonal systems like CeRhSi under pressures. Moreover, electrical inhomogeneity near quantum critical point is also detected in the chemically substituted CeCoIn.
Sakai, Hironori; Hattori, Taisuke; Tokunaga, Yo; Kambe, Shinsaku; Yokoyama, Makoto*; Zhu, J.-X.*; Ronning, F.*; Bauer, E. D.*; Thompson, J. D.*
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We have used nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) to probe microscopically the response of a prototypical quantum critical metal CeCoIn to substitutions of small amounts of Cd or Zn for In. Such non-magnetic Cd or Zn substitutions induce a long range antiferromagnetism. In the case of the Cd substitutions, approximately half of the Cd substituents induce local Ce moments in their close proximity, as observed by site-dependent longitudinal nuclear spin relaxation rates . In the case of Zn substitutions, the similar site dependence of is observed as well. We will discuss about the heterogeneous electronic state realized in such a dilutely substituted system.