1. 125Te spin-lattice relaxation in a candidate to Weyl semimetals WTe2
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Antonenko, A. O., Charnaya, E. V., Pirozerskii, A. L., Nefedov, D. Yu., Lee, M. K., Chang, L. J., Haase, J., Naumov, S. V., Domozhirova, A. N., and Marchenkov, V. V.
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Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics - Abstract
The tungsten ditelluride WTe2 was suggested to belong to the Weyl semimetal family. We studied 125Te spin-lattice relaxation and NMR spectra in a WTe2 single crystal within a large range from 28 K up to room temperature. Measurements were carried out on a Bruker Avance 500 NMR pulse spectrometer for two orientations of the crystalline c axis, parallel and perpendicular to magnetic field. Relaxation proved to be single-exponential. The relaxation time varied depending on the sample position in magnetic field and frequency offset. The relaxation rate increased about linearly with temperature below 70 K however the dependence became nearly quadratic at higher temperatures. The relaxation rate within the total temperature range was fitted using a theoretical model developed in [41] for Weyl semimetals and assuming the decrease of the chemical potential with increasing temperature. The results obtained for 125Te spin-lattice relaxation evidence in favor of the topological nontriviality of the WTe2 semimetal. The 125Te NMR spectra agreed with the occurrence of nonequivalent tellurium sites and varied insignificantly with temperature.
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- 2020