Nuclear magnetic resonance in ferromagnetic HCP and FCC 59cobalt

The ⁵⁹Co nuclear magnetic resonance spectra of powdered metal have been investigated in the temperature range from 3 K – 295 K. Both HCP resonance lines, coming from nuclei at the center and the edge of the domain walls (v₁ = 221 MHzv₂ = 214 MHz at 295 K, respectively) have been observed as in bulk material. The quadrupole splitting, directly measured only by Kawakami et al., was verified. The line spacing v_q = 3e²Qq/2I(2I - 1)h is v_q = (178 ± 5) kHz at 295 K. A new line with v = 221.7 MHz at 295 K was found, which is probably due to a stacking fault.The temperature behaviour of the FCC-linewidth is anomalous. Between 3 and 10 K a line splitting due to frequency pulling, already predicted by De Gennes et al. in 1962, was discovered. The frequency shift derived from the splitting of the FCC line at 3 K is δω₀ ≈ 2.51 MHz. The corresponding anisotropy field and zero field ferromagnetic resonance frequency of FCC cobalt are H_A ≈ 1.25 × 10² Oe and ω_e ≈ 2.27 × 10⁹ Hz, respectively.