Abstract
We present a C and Cs NMR investigation of the Cs cubic quenched phase. Previous ESR measurements suggest that this phase is metallic, but NMR reveals contrasting electronic behavior on the local scale. The C spin-lattice relaxation time exhibits a typical metallic behavior down to 50 K, but indicates that a partial spin gap opens for . Unexpectedly, Cs NMR shows that there are two inequivalent Cs sites. For one of these sites, the NMR shift and follow an activated law, confirming the existence of a spin gap. We ascribe this spin gap to the occurrence of localized spin singlets on a small fraction of the molecules.
- Received 11 September 1998
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.2131
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