MuSR studies of the electronic properties of hyperexpanded fullerides close to the Mott transition

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The fcc polymorph of the hyperexpanded fulleride Cs3C60 can be driven to a bulk suprconducting state without symmetry change by the application of pressure. Its Tc passes through a maximum of 34 K at ca. 6 kbar. We have been recently successful in isolating the isostructural Cs3-xRbxC60 family of materials with 0<x<1 in which the effect of physical pressure is mimicked by the application of chemical pressure through isovalent substitution of Cs+ by Rb+. With this proposal, we want to address the nature of the electronic states of the fcc Cs3-xRbxC60 phases at ambient pressure as we cross the metal/superconductor-insulator boundary. We will search for the onset of long range antiferromagntic order by using the muSR technique in its ZF/LF variants for the insulating phases (small x) and characterise the superconducting state for the metallic phases (large x) by using TF-muSR.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24079409
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24079409
Provenance
Creator Dr Matthew Rosseinsky; Professor Kosmas Prassides
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2013
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2010-07-08T09:13:34Z
Temporal Coverage End 2010-07-14T07:34:58Z