Phase transition and anomalous electronic behavior in layered dichalcogenide CuS (covellite) probed by NQR

Details Phase transition and anomalous electronic behavior in layered dichalcogenide CuS (covellite) probed by NQR Phase transition and anomalous electronic behavior in layered dichalcogenide CuS (covellite) probed by NQR

2008-09-03

arxiv.org/abs/0809.0560v1

Physical Review B 79, 075115 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

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10.1103/PhysRevB.79.075115

Nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) on copper nuclei has been applied for studies of the electronic properties of quasi-two-dimensional low-temperature superconductor CuS (covellite) in the temperature region between 1.47 and 290 K. Two NQR signals corresponding to two non-equivalent sites of copper in the structure, Cu(1) and Cu(2), has been found. The temperature dependences of copper quadrupole frequencies, line-widths and spin-lattice relaxation rates, which so far had never been investigated so precisely for this material, altogether demonstrate the structural phase transition near 55 K, which accompanies transformations of electronic spectrum not typical for simple metals. The analysis of NQR results and their comparison with literature data show that the valence of copper ions at both sites is intermediate in character between monovalent and divalent states with the dominant of the former. It has been found that there is a strong hybridization of Cu(1) and Cu(2) conduction bands at low temperatures, indicating that the charge delocalization between these ions takes place even in 2D regime. Based on our data, the occurrence of energy gap, charge fluctuations and charge-density waves, as well as the nature of phase transition in CuS are discussed. It is concluded that some physical properties of CuS are similar to those of high-temperature superconductors (HTSC) in normal state.

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