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Apr, 2009

Unconventional superconductivity of NpPd5Al2

JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER
  • D. Aoki
  • Y. Haga
  • T. D. Matsuda
  • S. Ikeda
  • Y. Homma
  • H. Sakai
  • Y. Shiokawa
  • E. Yamamoto
  • A. Nakamura
  • R. Settai
  • Y. Onuki
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Volume
21
Number
16
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (scientific journal)
DOI
10.1088/0953-8984/21/16/164203
Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD

The high quality single crystals of NpPd5Al2 with the body-centered tetragonal structure were grown by the Pb flux method. NpPd5Al2 was found to be the first Np-based heavy fermion superconductor with the relatively high critical temperature T-sc = 4.9 K. The upper critical field H-c2 is large and highly anisotropic. Corresponding to the heavy electronic state, the initial slope of H-c2 is large, but H-c2 at low temperatures is suppressed by the magnetic field, indicating a strong Pauli paramagnetic effect and the first-order transition at H-c2. These results imply that NpPd5Al2 is located at the proximity of the antiferromagnetic ordering, which might be hidden by the superconductivity. The d-wave superconductivity with a spin singlet state is most likely realized in NpPd5Al2.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984/21/16/164203
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000264746900006&DestApp=WOS_CPL
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  • DOI : 10.1088/0953-8984/21/16/164203
  • ISSN : 0953-8984
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000264746900006

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