Jul, 2005
Impurity effect as a probe for the gap function in the filled skutterudite compound superconductor PrOs4Sb12: Sb-NQR study
JOURNAL OF THE PHYSICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN
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- Volume
- 74
- Number
- 7
- First page
- 1938
- Last page
- 1941
- Language
- English
- Publishing type
- Research paper (scientific journal)
- DOI
- 10.1143/JPSJ.74.1938
- Publisher
- PHYSICAL SOC JAPAN
We have carried out nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) measurements in the filled skutterudite compounds Pr(Os1-x,Ru,)(4)Sb-12 (x = 0. 1, 0.2), in order to gain insights into the symmetry of the superconducting gap function. Upon replacing Os with Ru, the spin-lattice relaxation rate 1/T-1 becomes proportional to temperature (T) at low T far below T-c, and the magnitude of (1/T1T1)(low-T) increases with increasing Ru content. These results indicate that a finite density of states is induced at the Fermi level by the impurity, and thus suggest that there exist nodes in the gap function of PrOs4Sb12.
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- DOI : 10.1143/JPSJ.74.1938
- ISSN : 0031-9015
- Web of Science ID : WOS:000230659300016