Muon Knight shift as a precise probe of the superconducting symmetry of SrRuO
arXiv:2512.14107 · doi:10.1103/sgcz-9rc7
Abstract
Muon spin rotation (SR) measurements of internal magnetic field shifts, known as the muon Knight shift, is used for determining pairing symmetries in superconductors. While this technique has been especially effective for -electron-based heavy-fermion superconductors, it remains challenging in -electron-based superconductors such as SrRuO, where the Knight shift is intrinsically small. Here, we report high-precision muon Knight shift measurements of superconducting SrRuO. We observe that using multiple pieces of crystals, a common practice in SR measurements, induces a substantial paramagnetic shift below the superconducting transition temperature, , when a weak magnetic field is applied. We attribute such an unresolved paramagnetic shift to stray fields generated by neighboring diamagnetic crystals. To avoid this, one piece of crystal was used in this study. We experimentally determine the muon Knight shift of SrRuO in the normal state to be -1167 ppm. By combining the observed muon Knight shift with independently determined bulk magnetization data from the same crystal used in SR and carefully separating various contributions to the shift, we confirm a significant reduction in the spin Knight shift below , consistent with spin-singlet-like pairing. This result constitutes the precise muon Knight shift measurement in a -electron-based superconductor. Our results highlight the potential of SR as a powerful complementary technique to the established method of nuclear magnetic resonance for probing the spin susceptibility in superconductors.
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