Abstract

We carried out 125Te NMR studies of a WTe2 topological Weyl semimetal at temperatures of 41 and 293 K. Measurements were performed using a pulse Bruker Avance 500 NMR spectrometer. 125Te NMR spectra were obtained for the WTe2 single crystal at the orientation of the crystalline c axis parallel and perpendicular to the quantized field. We ascribed the complex spectra to four non-equivalent tellurium sites in the WTe2 crystalline structure. The recovery of the longitudinal magnetization was studied after the pulse saturation of particular lines in the spectra. We observed the single-exponential relaxation. The frequency shifts and widths of the spectral lines differed insignificantly at two temperatures while the spin-lattice relaxation times at 41 K were by a factor of approximately 30 greater than the relevant times at room temperature. Strong temperature dependence of relaxation was suggested to be due to the contribution of Weyl quasi-particles below the topological phase transition.

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