Influence of local fullerene orientation on the electronic properties of A3C60 compounds

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2006-08-31

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0608715v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

13 pages, 10 figures, submitted to PRB

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.74.214509

We have investigated sodium containing fullerene superconductors Na2AC60, A = Cs, Rb, and K, by Na-23 nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy at 7.5 T in the temperature range of 10 to 400 K. Despite the structural differences from the Rb3C60 class of fullerene superconductors, in these compounds the NMR line of the tetrahedrally coordinated alkali nuclei also splits into two lines (T and T') at low temperature. In Na2CsC60 the splitting occurs at 170 K; in the quenched cubic phase of Na2RbC60 and Na2KC60 we observe split lines at 80 K. Detailed investigations of the spectrum, spin-spin and spin-lattice relaxation as well as spin-echo double resonance (SEDOR) in Na2CsC60 we show that these two different tetrahedral sites are mixed on a microscopic scale. The T and T' sites differ in the orientation of first-neighbor C60 molecules. We present evidence that the orientations of neighboring molecules are uncorrelated. Thermally activated molecular reorientations cause an exchange between the T and T' sites and motional narrowing at high temperature. We infer the same activation energy, 3300 K, in the temperature range 125 to 300 K. The spin lattice relaxation rate is the same for T and T' down to 125 K but different below. Both the spin-lattice relaxation rate and Knight shift are strongly temperature dependent in the whole range investigated. We interpret this temperature variation by the effect of phonon excitations involving the rigid librational motion of the C60 molecules. By extending the understanding of the structure and molecular dynamics of C60 superconductors, these results may help in clarifying the effects of the structure on the superconducting properties.

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