Abstract
We have carried out and nuclear quadrupole resonance and nuclear magnetic resonance measurements on and The temperature T dependence of the nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate of in the normal state indicates that is located just at an antiferromagnetic instability, and is in the nearly antiferromagnetic region. In the superconducting state, has no Hebel-Slichter coherence peak just below and a power-law T dependence (close to at very low temperatures, which indicates the existence of line nodes in the superconducting energy gap. The (Ce-In plane) Knight shift in decreases for both parallel and perpendicular directions to the tetragonal c axis in the superconducting state, which shows that the spin susceptibility decreases in all directions. These results indicate that and exhibit non--wave even parity (probably d-wave) superconductivity.
- Received 8 November 2000
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.64.134526
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