NMR in strongly correlated materials

TL;DR

This paper reviews how Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) techniques reveal the complex magnetic and electronic properties of strongly correlated materials, highlighting their role in understanding exotic phenomena beyond independent electron models.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of NMR applications in strongly correlated electron systems, emphasizing its ability to distinguish orbital contributions and uncover novel phenomena.

Findings

NMR distinguishes orbitals responsible for magnetism and superconductivity.

Reveals physical properties deviating from independent electron expectations.

Highlights the importance of NMR in correlated electron physics.

Abstract

Electron-electron interactions are at the origin of many exotic electronic properties of materials which have emerged from recent experimental observations. The main important phenomena discovered are related with electronic magnetic properties, which have been quite accessible to Nuclear Magnetic Resonance techniques. Those specifically permit to distinguish the orbitals or electronic bands responsible for the magnetism, the metallic properties and superconductivity and to reveal the physical properties which are distinct from expectations in an independent electron scheme. The description of some selected experimental cases permits us to underline the importance of the technique and to reveal altogether to the reader a wide range of novel phenomena specific to correlated electron physics.