Abstract

The longitudinal muon spin relaxation in metals and semimetals issuggestive of a form of Korringa relaxation in which the hyperfineinteraction between the muons and the conduction electrons plays adominant rôle. We give an alternative derivation of the Korringalaw and show how muons may thus be used to study interactions withconduction electrons at interstitial sites. The alternativederivation links the topic to the use of implanted muons both asprobes of magnetic and correlated-electron systems and as protonanalogues, modelling the behaviour of hydrogen impurity in metalsand semimetals.

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