Abstract
We report 115In nuclear quadrupolar resonance (NQR) measurements on the heavy-fermion superconductor PuCoIn5, in the temperature range 0.29K ≤ T ≤ 75K. The NQR parameters for the two crystallographically inequivalent In sites are determined, and their temperature dependence is investigated. A linear shift of the quadrupolar frequency with lowering temperature below the critical value Tc is revealed, in agreement with the prediction for composite pairing. The nuclear spin–lattice relaxation rate T1−1(T) clearly signals a superconducting (SC) phase transition at Tc ≃ 2.3 K, with strong spin fluctuations, mostly in-plane, dominating the relaxation process in the normal state near to Tc. Analysis of the T1−1 data in the SC state suggests that PuCoIn5 is a strong-coupling d-wave superconductor.
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