15th International Conference on Muon Spin Rotation, Relaxation and Resonance

The interaction between positive muons and multiple quadrupolar nuclei

P-TUE-22

30 Aug 2022, 17:20

1h 40m

Science and Technology Campus, University of Parma

Poster Spin liquids and related phenomena Posters

Speaker

Stephen Blundell (University of Oxford)

Description

A positively charged muon implanted in copper sits at an octahedral interstitial site and experiences a magnetic dipolar coupling with six nearest-neighbour quadrupolar $I=3/2$ copper nuclei [1]. The resulting avoided level crossing resonance observed as a function of magnetic field [2] provides a means of studying these interactions and understanding the effect of the electric-field gradient due to the muon experienced by the quadrupolar nuclei. The effect is usually modelled by considering the interaction between the positive muon and a single copper nucleus, but the other five copper nuclei are equally important. By solving the problem in the full $2(2I+1)^6=8192$-dimensional Hilbert space, we demonstrate the effect of these additional interactions.

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