Muon spin rotation and relaxation in Pr1xNdxOs4Sb12: Superconductivity and magnetism in Pr-rich alloys

P.-C. Ho, D. E. MacLaughlin, M. B. Maple, Lei Shu, A. D. Hillier, O. O. Bernal, T. Yanagisawa, P. K. Biswas, Jian Zhang, Cheng Tan, S. D. Hishida, and T. McCullough-Hunter
Phys. Rev. B 106, 144508 – Published 20 October 2022

Abstract

The Pr-rich end 0x0.25 of the alloy series Pr1xNdxOs4Sb12 has been studied using muon spin rotation and relaxation. The end compound PrOs4Sb12 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 x0.05, indicating that TRS has been restored. The superfluid density from the vortex-lattice field distribution is insensitive to Nd concentration for x0.2, indicating that TRS restoration does not have a strong effect on the superconducting state. No Nd3+ static magnetism, ordered or disordered, is found down to the lowest temperatures of measurement.

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  • Received 29 June 2022
  • Revised 18 August 2022
  • Accepted 22 August 2022

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.106.144508

©2022 American Physical Society

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Condensed Matter, Materials & Applied Physics

Authors & Affiliations

P.-C. Ho1, D. E. MacLaughlin2, M. B. Maple3, Lei Shu4,5, A. D. Hillier6, O. O. Bernal7, T. Yanagisawa8, P. K. Biswas6, Jian Zhang4, Cheng Tan4, S. D. Hishida1, and T. McCullough-Hunter1

  • 1Department of Physics, California State University, Fresno, California 93740, USA
  • 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, USA
  • 3Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
  • 4State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics and Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China
  • 5Shanghai Research Center for Quantum Sciences, Shanghai 201315, China
  • 6ISIS Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot Oxon OX11 0QX, United Kingdom
  • 7Department of Physics and Astronomy, California State University, Los Angeles, California 90032, USA
  • 8Department of Physics, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0810, Japan

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Vol. 106, Iss. 14 — 1 October 2022

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