Abstract
We report Sb-NQR results which evidence a heavy-fermion (HF) behavior and an unconventional superconducting (SC) property in with . The temperature () dependence of nuclear-spin-lattice-relaxation rate, , and NQR frequency unravel a low-lying crystal-electric-field splitting below , associated with -derived ground state. In the SC state, shows neither a coherence peak just below nor a -like power-law behavior observed for anisotropic HF superconductors with the line-node gap. The isotropic energy gap with its size seems to open up across below . It is surprising that looks like an isotropic HF superconductor—it may indeed argue for Cooper pairing via quadrupolar fluctuations.
- Received 17 April 2002
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.027001
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