Vn. Duginov et al., STUDY OF LOCAL MAGNETIC-FIELDS IN THE OXIDE ALPHA-BI2O3 BY NQR AND MU-SR TECHNIQUES, Hyperfine interactions, 85(1-4), 1994, pp. 197-202
NQR and muSR investigations of the local magnetic field in alpha-Bi2O3
were performed. In the NQR experiments on alpha-Bi2O3 which is usuall
y considered as diamagnetic, the splitting of the spectral lines revea
led a local field on the bismuth nuclei. The internal magnetic field o
btained by muSR significantly exceeds the dipole field from Bi nuclear
magnetic moments. A possible source of the local magnetic fields is p
artial covalent bonds in alpha-Bi2O3.