209Bi NMR in the heavy-electron system YbBiPt
Abstract
Bismuth NMR Knight shift and spin lattice relaxation rate 1/T1 data are reported between 35 and 325 K in the low-carrier heavy fermion system YbBiPt. The Knight shift is strongly temperature dependent and negative. Its temperature dependence tracks the bulk susceptibility with a hyperfine coupling constant Ahf = -7.88 kOe/μB. At low temperatures 1/T1 exhibits a dramatic increase, such that the average 4f spin correlation time τf shows a crossover behavior at about 75 K. The rate 1 τf is proportional to temperature above 75 K, consistent with non-interacting 4f local moments which are relaxed via Korringa-type scattering with the conduction electrons. We discuss the behavior below 75 K in terms of crystal-field effects or a strongly temperature dependent contribution from non-zero q regime of the dynamical susceptibility. © 1995.
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