Co-NQR Study on Successive Magnetic Phase under Pressure in Non-centrosymmetric CeCoGe3

Abstract

We have performed Co-NQR study to clarify the complex magnetic phases in approaching to the quantum critical point (QCP). The successive transitions at TN2=12 K and TN3=8 K after the ferrimagnetic-like order at TN1=21 K in ambient pressure are confirmed by the spectral changes of Co-NQR However no critical slowing down of the nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate 1/T1 or the nuclear spin-spin relaxation rate 1/T2 at TN2 and TN3 was observed, suggesting 1st order transitions. In applying pressure, a large spectral change of Co-NQR occurs in relatively low pressure of 0.3 Gpa. The Co-NQR spectrum becomes simple above about 0.7 GPa, consisting of the two Co sites with spectral weight ratio of 2. No successive transitions were observed in 1.5 GPa, indicating that the successive transitions are confined to relatively low pressure region. The extremely slower decrease of the sublattice magnetization than that expected in the mean field approximation is seen in 1.5 GPa.