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Apr, 2006

Evidence for unconventional superconducting fluctuations in heavy-fermion compound CeNi2Ge2

JOURNAL OF THE PHYSICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN
  • S Kawasaki
  • ,
  • T Sada
  • ,
  • T Miyoshi
  • ,
  • H Kotegawa
  • ,
  • H Mukuda
  • ,
  • TC Kobayashi
  • ,
  • T Fukuhara
  • ,
  • K Maezawa
  • ,
  • KM Itoh
  • ,
  • EE Haller

Volume
75
Number
4
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (scientific journal)
DOI
10.1143/JPSJ.75.043702
Publisher
PHYSICAL SOC JAPAN

We present evidence for unconventional superconducting fluctuations in a heavy-fermion compound CeNi2Ge2. The temperature dependence of the Ge-73 nuclear-spin-lattice-relaxation rate 1/T-1 indicates the development of magnetic correlations and the formation of a Fermi-liquid state at temperatures lower than T-FL = 0.4 K, where 1/T1T is constant. The resistance and 1/T1T measured on an as-grown sample decrease below 7(c)(onset) = 0.2 K and T-c(NQR) = 0.1 K, respectively: these are indicative of the onset of superconductivity. However, after annealing the sample to improve its quality. these superconducting signatures disappear. These results are consistent with the emergence of unconventional superconducting fluctuations in close proximity to a quantum critical point from the superconducting to the normal phase in CeNi2Ge2.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1143/JPSJ.75.043702
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000237062400008&DestApp=WOS_CPL
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  • DOI : 10.1143/JPSJ.75.043702
  • ISSN : 0031-9015
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000237062400008

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