Electrical Nuclear Quadrupolar Interaction of ZINC-67 in a Single Crystal of Zinc.

The nuclear quadrupolar coupling of ('67)Zn in a single crystal of zinc has been studied using the techniques of nuclear acoustic resonance (NAR) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) at low temperatures. NAR, which is an attractive way of doing resonance experiments, is analogous to NMR except in the fact that we use phonons instead of photons to induce transitions thereby avoiding the skin -depth problems met when we do NMR in single metallic crystal. While our NAR experiments were unfruitful mainly due to the large magnetoresistance effects shown by zinc at low temperatures, we were able to circumvent these problems in our NMR experiments by using a time-sharing spectrometer which did not require modulation of the magnetic field. This way, we studied the I(,z) = 1/2 to I(,z) = -1/2 magnetic resonance transition of the I = 5/2 ground state of ('67)Zn in a single crystal of zinc metal as a function of crystal orientation in a magnetic field of 72 kilogauss. The small frequency deviation versus crystal orientation has been used to evaluate the electric quadrupole interaction e('2)qQ/h as 12.19(2) Mhz, the isotropic Knight shift as 0.236(6)% and the anisotropic Knight shift as 0.013(2)% at 4.2(DEGREES)K.