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Coexistence of Antiferromagnetism with Superconductivity in CePt2In7: Microscopic Phase Diagram Determined by In115 NMR and NQR

H. Sakai, Y. Tokunaga, S. Kambe, F. Ronning, E. D. Bauer, J. D. Thompson

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.206401 · Physical Review Letters

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Abstract

Single crystals of the heavy-fermion antiferromagnet CePt2In7 with a Néel temperature (TN) of 5.2 K at ambient pressure have been investigated by zero-field In115-nuclear magnetic and quadrupole resonance measurements as a function of applied pressure. Within the antiferromagnetic state, the character of Ce’s 4f electron appears to change from localized to itinerantlike at P*∼2.4 GPa, approximately the pressure where superconductivity first emerges. With increased pressure, the superconducting transition Tc reaches a maximum just at or slightly before antiferromagnetic order disappears, and not at the pressure Pc∼3.4 GPa, where the steeply decreasing Néel boundary extrapolates to zero temperature. For P>Pc, the spin relaxation rate drops sharply by more than 2 orders of magnitude at Tc, suggestive of a first-order transition.

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FormulaReported Tc (K)Pressure (GPa)Type
CePt2In7

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23.1 GPaonset
CePt2In7

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23.1 GPaonset
CePt2In7

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1.53.7 GPaonset
CeRhIn5

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2.6Pressure not reportedunknown

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