Lancaster T, Blundell S J, Baker P J, Brooks M L, Hayes W, Pratt F L, Manson J L, Conner M M, Schlueter J A
Clarendon Laboratory, Department of Physics, Oxford University, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PU, United Kingdom.
Phys Rev Lett. 2007 Dec 31;99(26):267601. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.267601. Epub 2007 Dec 27.
The information accessible from a muon-spin relaxation experiment can be limited due to a lack of knowledge of the precise muon stopping site. We demonstrate here the possibility of localizing a spin polarized muon in a known stopping state in a molecular material containing fluorine. The muon-spin precession that results from the entangled nature of the muon spin and surrounding nuclear spins is sensitive to the nature of the stopping site. We use this property to identify three classes of sites that occur in molecular magnets and describe the extent to which the muon distorts its surroundings.
由于对μ子精确的停止位置缺乏了解,μ子自旋弛豫实验所获得的信息可能会受到限制。我们在此证明了在含氟分子材料中,将自旋极化μ子定位在已知停止状态的可能性。μ子自旋与周围核自旋的纠缠性质所导致的μ子自旋进动对停止位置的性质很敏感。我们利用这一特性来识别分子磁体中出现的三类位置,并描述μ子对其周围环境的扭曲程度。