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NMR Investigation of the WTe2 Weyl Semimetal below the Topological Transition Temperature. / Antonenko, A. O.; Charnaya, E. V.; Lee, M. K.; Chang, L. J.; Haase, J.; Naumov, S. V.; Domozhirova, A. N.; Marchenkov, V. V.
In: Physics of the Solid State, Vol. 61, No. 11, 11.2019, p. 1979-1984.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - NMR Investigation of the WTe2 Weyl Semimetal below the Topological Transition Temperature
AU - Antonenko, A. O.
AU - Charnaya, E. V.
AU - Lee, M. K.
AU - Chang, L. J.
AU - Haase, J.
AU - Naumov, S. V.
AU - Domozhirova, A. N.
AU - Marchenkov, V. V.
PY - 2019/11
Y1 - 2019/11
N2 - Abstract: NMR investigations are performed on 125Te nuclei of WTe2 Weyl topological semimetal at temperatures of 41 and 293 K. The measurements were carried out using a Bruker Avance 500 NMR pulse spectrometer. The 125Te NMR spectra for a WTe2 single crystal are obtained for the orientation of crystal axis c parallel and perpendicular to the quantizing field. A complicated form of the spectra was related to the presence of four nonequivalent positions of tellurium atoms in the crystalline structure of WTe2. The longitudinal magnetization recovery was studied after the pulse saturation for particular spectral lines. An exponential character of relaxation is revealed. The frequency shift and width of spectral lines were found to be insignificantly different at the two temperatures, while the times of nuclear spin-lattice relaxation at 41 K exceeded approximately by 30 times the corresponding times measured at room temperature. The strong temperature dependence of the relaxation is supposedly related to the contribution of the Weyl quasi-particles below the topological phase transition.
AB - Abstract: NMR investigations are performed on 125Te nuclei of WTe2 Weyl topological semimetal at temperatures of 41 and 293 K. The measurements were carried out using a Bruker Avance 500 NMR pulse spectrometer. The 125Te NMR spectra for a WTe2 single crystal are obtained for the orientation of crystal axis c parallel and perpendicular to the quantizing field. A complicated form of the spectra was related to the presence of four nonequivalent positions of tellurium atoms in the crystalline structure of WTe2. The longitudinal magnetization recovery was studied after the pulse saturation for particular spectral lines. An exponential character of relaxation is revealed. The frequency shift and width of spectral lines were found to be insignificantly different at the two temperatures, while the times of nuclear spin-lattice relaxation at 41 K exceeded approximately by 30 times the corresponding times measured at room temperature. The strong temperature dependence of the relaxation is supposedly related to the contribution of the Weyl quasi-particles below the topological phase transition.
KW - nuclear magnetic resonance
KW - thermoelectrics
KW - topological phase transition
KW - Weyl semimetals
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U2 - 10.1134/S1063783419110040
DO - 10.1134/S1063783419110040
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85074690113
VL - 61
SP - 1979
EP - 1984
JO - Physics of the Solid State
JF - Physics of the Solid State
SN - 1063-7834
IS - 11
ER -
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