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EPL Association, European Physical Society Letters, 8(31), p. 485-490

DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/31/8/011

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Metal-Insulator Transition in Ytterbium Under Pressure: an EPR Study

Journal article published in 1995 by M. A. Continentino ORCID, B. Elschner, Gerhard Jakob ORCID
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Abstract

We study the pressure-induced metal-insulator (MI) transition in ytterbium using EPR measurements with Eu as the probe for magnetic resonance. For a given pressure the linewidth ?H increases linearly with temperature indicating a Korringa type of relaxation of the Eu impurities by the conduction electrons of the host. With increasing pressure d?H/dT decreases becoming very small at a critical pressure Pc 12.5 kbars. Close to Pc, d?H/dT decreases linearly with (P - Pc) in agreement with the scaling theory for density-driven metal-insulator transitions. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time such transitions are studied by magnetic resonance.