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Local Magnetic Susceptibility of the Positive Muon in the Quasi 1D S=1/2 Antiferromagnet KCuF
We report muon spin rotation measurements of the local magnetic
susceptibility around a positive muon in the paramagnetic state of the quasi
one-dimensional spin 1/2 antiferromagnet KCuF. Signals from two distinct
sites are resolved which have a temperature dependent frequency shift which is
different than the magnetic susceptibility. This difference is attributed to a
muon induced perturbation of the spin 1/2 chain.Comment: 13 pages, 4 figures, The 2002 International Conference on Muon Spin
Rotation, Relaxation and Resonance, Virginia. US
Positive muon Knight shift and spin relaxation in heavy fermion superconductors UPt3 and UBe13
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m/sup +/SR studies on pure MnF/sub 2/ and site-diluted (Mn/sub 0. 5/Zn/sub 0. 5/)F/sub 2/
Positive muon spin rotation and relaxation measurements have been carried out on the antiferromagnets, pure MnF/sub 2/ and site-diluted (Mn/sub 0.5/Zn/sub 0.5/)F/sub 2/, above and below the Neel temperature T/sub N/ using single-crystal specimens. Two different muon signals have been found in the pure MnF/sub 2/; with the precession frequency nu/sub A/ = 1.3 GHz for the site A and nu/sub B/ = 152 MHz for the site B measured in zero external magnetic field at T = 5 K. We propose a picture that the signal from the A site represents the ''muonium'' state, and discuss the characteristic features of muonium in magnetic materials. The spin relaxation rate 1/T/sub 1/, measured in zero external field, decreases rapidly with decreasing temperature below T/sub N/. The mechanism of the spin relaxation above T/sub N/ is explained by the exchange fluctuations of the Mn moments, while below T/sub N/ by the Raman scattering of spin waves. At the same normalized temperature T/T/sub N/, 1/T/sub 1/ observed in the diluted (Mn/sub 0.5/Zn/sub 0.5/)F/sub 2/ is significantly larger than that in the pure MnF/sub 2/ below T/sub N/. The difference between the pure and diluted systems is related to the large spectral weight of low-energy magnons in (Mn/sub 0.5/Zn/sub 0.5/)F/sub 2/ found by neutron scattering
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Determination of very slow. mu. /sup +/ hop rates in Cu by LLF-. mu. SR
Muon spin relaxation in low (weak) longitudinal magnetic field (LLF-..mu..SR) provides a means of independently determining the static dipolar width ..delta.. characterizing the ..mu../sup +/ lattice site and the correlation time tau/sub c/ for ..mu../sup +/ hopping, in a manner that is nearly model-independent for tau/sub c/ and especially accurate in the near-static limit (tau/sub c/ > tau/sub ..mu../). The advantages of this method are illustrated by its application to muon hopping in Cu near the tau/sub c/ maximum around 50/sup 0/K