Abstract
The Pr-rich end of the alloy series has been studied using muon spin rotation and relaxation. The end compound is an unconventional heavy-fermion superconductor, which exhibits a spontaneous magnetic field associated with broken time-reversal symmetry (TRS) in the superconducting phase. No such field is observed in the Nd-doped alloys for , indicating that TRS has been restored. The superfluid density from the vortex-lattice field distribution is insensitive to Nd concentration for , indicating that TRS restoration does not have a strong effect on the superconducting state. No static magnetism, ordered or disordered, is found down to the lowest temperatures of measurement.
- Received 29 June 2022
- Revised 18 August 2022
- Accepted 22 August 2022
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.106.144508
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