Study of the positive muon knight shift in UNi2Al3: Evidence for a tetravalent U4+-state and crystalline electric field splitting

European Physical Journal B

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 245-256

  Schenck, A ^a   Sato, N K ^b   Solt, G ^c   Andreica, D ^a   Gygax, F N ^a   Pinkpank, M ^a   Amato, A ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

71.70.Ch Crystal and ligand fields; 76.60.Cq Chemical and Knight shifts; 76.75,+i Muon spin rotation and relaxation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001120658     PISSN: 14346028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100510050029     Document Type: Article

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