2009年4月
Unconventional superconductivity of NpPd5Al2
JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER
- 巻
- 21
- 号
- 16
- 記述言語
- 英語
- 掲載種別
- 研究論文(学術雑誌)
- DOI
- 10.1088/0953-8984/21/16/164203
- 出版者・発行元
- 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.
- リンク情報
- ID情報
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- DOI : 10.1088/0953-8984/21/16/164203
- ISSN : 0953-8984
- Web of Science ID : WOS:000264746900006