Anomalous enhancement of nuclear spin relaxation rates of109Ag and115 in at low temperatures in cubic Γ3 ground-state system PrAg2In - First observation of octupole fluctuations of f -electrons

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Volumn 75, Issue 7, 2006, Pages

  Tanida, Hiroshi ^a   Takagi, Shigeru ^a   Suzuki, Hiroyuki S ^b   Satoh, Isamu ^c   Komatsubara, Takemi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Nuclear spin relaxation; Octupole; Pr compounds; PrAg2In; Quadrupole

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847277967     PISSN: 00319015     EISSN: 13474073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/JPSJ.75.074721     Document Type: Article

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